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Chairman

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

16Records
1930–1997Date range
13Named people
3Places

Chronological records

1930

Neville Chamberlain1930

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party

1945

Richard Austen Butler Saffron Walden1945

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Research Department

1946

Richard Austen Butler Saffron Walden1946

Blackpool · Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Industrial Policy Committee

1953

Richard Austen Butler Saffron Walden23 June 1953

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Cabinet, due to the ill health of Churchill & Eden

1970

John Roy MajorJanuary 1970

Lambeth · Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of Housing, Lambeth Council

1972

Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington Carrington, 6th1972

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party

1980

Ian Kinloch MacGregor1980

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the British Steel Corporation

1983

Margaret Hilda Thatcher21 March 1983

Government / Conservative Party Government

Macgregor is named as the Chairman of the NCB

Ian Kinloch MacGregor28 March 1983

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the National Coal Board

John Selwyn Gummer1983

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party

George Jefferson1983

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of British Telecom

1985

Norman Tebbit1985

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party

1990

Christopher Francis Patten28 November 1990

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party

1992

Norman Fowler11 April 1992

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party

1995

Brian Mawhinney1995

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party

1997

William Hague1997

Government / Conservative Party Government

Appointed Chairman of the International Democrat Union

Names involved

Brian MawhinneyChristopher Francis PattenGeorge JeffersonIan Kinloch MacGregorJohn Roy MajorJohn Selwyn GummerMargaret Hilda ThatcherNeville ChamberlainNorman FowlerNorman TebbitPeter Alexander Rupert Carrington Carrington, 6thRichard Austen Butler Saffron WaldenWilliam Hague

Provenance

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