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Norman Lamont (1942)

The Right Honourable
The Lord Lamont of Lerwick
PC
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
28 November 1990 – 27 May 1993
Prime Minister John Major
Preceded by John Major
Succeeded by Kenneth Clarke
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
24 July 1989 – 28 November 1990
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by John Major
Succeeded by David Mellor
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
21 May 1986 – 24 July 1989
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by John Moore
Succeeded by Peter Lilley
Minister for Defence Procurement
In office
2 September 1985 – 21 May 1986
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Adam Butler
Succeeded by David Trefgarne
Minister of State for Trade and Industry
In office
13 June 1983 – 2 September 1985
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Peter Morrison
Member of Parliament
for Kingston-upon-Thames
In office
4 May 1972 – 1 May 1997
Preceded by John Boyd-Carpenter
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont
(1942-05-08) 8 May 1942 (age 74)
Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Rosemary White
(m. 1971; div. 1999)
Children Hilaire
Sophie
Education Loretto School
Alma mater Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick, PC (born 8 May 1942) is a British politician and former Conservative MP for Kingston-upon-Thames. He is best known for his period serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1990 until 1993. He was created a life peer in 1998.

Lamont was born in Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, where his father was the islands' surgeon. He was raised in Grimsby. He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, Scotland, and read Economics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1964. He also took part in the English-Speaking Union's Tour of the United States.

At Cambridge he was a contemporary of Michael Howard, Kenneth Clarke, Leon Brittan, and John Gummer all of whom became leading figures in the Conservative Party. The group was sometimes collectively known as the Cambridge Mafia.

Lamont became chairman of centre-right think tank the Bow Group between 1971-2.


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