| 词条 | Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath |
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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = The Lord Foster of Bath |honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} |image = Don Foster Minister.jpg |office = Liberal Democrat Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Spokesperson | term_start = October 2016 | term_end = June 2017 | leader = Tim Farron | predecessor = Lorely Burt | successor = Lord Fox | office1 = Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons |primeminister1 = David Cameron |1blankname1 = Chief Whip |1namedata1 = Baron Young of Cookham Michael Gove |term_start1 = 7 October 2013 |term_end1 = 11 May 2015 |predecessor1 = Alistair Carmichael |successor1 = Anne Milton[1] |office2 = Comptroller of the Household |primeminister2 = David Cameron |term_start2 = 7 October 2013 |term_end2 = 11 May 2015 |predecessor2 = Alistair Carmichael |successor2 = Gavin Barwell[2] |office3 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government |primeminister3 = David Cameron |term_start3 = 4 September 2012 |term_end3 = 7 October 2013 |predecessor3 = Andrew Stunell |successor3 = Stephen Williams |office4 = Member of Parliament for Bath |term_start4 = 9 April 1992 |term_end4 = 30 March 2015 |predecessor4 = Chris Patten |successor4 = Ben Howlett |birth_name = Donald Michael Ellison Foster |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|3|31|df=y}} |birth_place = Preston, Lancashire, England |death_date = |death_place = |party = Liberal Democrats |spouse = |children = |alma_mater = University of Keele University of Bath }} Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Baron Foster of Bath, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} (born 31 March 1947) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Bath, Somerset as its constituency MP from 1992 until 2015. From October 2013 to May 2015 he held the ex officio title of Comptroller of the Household as Liberal Democrat Chief Whip.[3] He was created Baron Foster of Bath, of Bath in the County of Somerset in the 2015 Dissolution Honours,[4] becoming a member of the House of Lords. Early lifeFoster was born in Preston, Lancashire, and attended the Lancaster Royal Grammar School before Keele University where he was awarded a BSc degree in Physics and Psychology in 1969, and also received the CertEd that same year. He later received an MEd in Education at the University of Bath in 1981. He was a science teacher at Sevenoaks School in Kent in 1969, before appointment as Avon Education Authority's Science Project Director in 1975 and as a Lecturer in Education at Bristol University in 1980, before being engaged as a management consultant with Pannell Kerr Forster from 1989 until his election to the House of Commons. Parliamentary careerA local party activist, he was a founder member of the Avon Liberal Democrats and was elected as a Councillor on Avon County Council in 1981 for Cabot Ward, and was the SDP-Liberal Alliance Group Leader from 1981–86. He also served as the county's education committee chairman, and remained a Councillor until 1989. He unsuccessfully contested Bristol East at the 1987 general election where he finished in third place, 11,659 votes behind the Conservative Jonathan Sayeed. He was elected at the 1992 general election when he defeated then-Conservative Party Chairman, Chris Patten, in the constituency of Bath; Foster won the seat with a majority of 3,768. Foster spoke of the World Heritage Site status of Bath and sent his best wishes to Patten in Hong Kong in his maiden speech on 12 May 1992.[5] In Parliament, Foster was the Liberal Democrat Spokesman for Education under the leadership of Paddy Ashdown in 1992, in which capacity he served until 1999. In December 2010, in response to a call from the Football Supporters' Federation, he introduced a Bill in Parliament for English and Welsh football safe standing areas, the first of its kind since the Taylor Report.[6] Having been sworn of the Privy Council in 2010,[7] in September 2012 Foster was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government before being promoted in October 2013 as Government Deputy Chief Whip representing the Liberal Democrats in the Coalition. In January 2014 Foster announced he would stand down as an MP at the following general election,[8] and now sits as a Liberal Democrat on the Opposition benches in the House of Lords. His Bath constituency was lost to the Conservatives at the 2015 general election, but regained by the Liberal Democrats in 2017. Personal lifeHis interests include Third World issues, being a member of Amnesty International and the Child Poverty Action Group as well as supporting a number of local charities, including Ted's Big Day Out and Julian House.[9] Lord Foster's main national charity is WaterAid and he has seen first hand their work in Ethiopia.[9] He is a Vice-President of the Debating Group,[10] and also enjoys sport, music, ballet, travelling and reading; Lord Foster also plays the ukulele.[11] Foster was nominated for a life peerage in August 2015,[12] despite having previously favoured abolition of the House of Lords. When accused of hypocrisy, Foster stated: "I want to get rid of [the House of Lords] and the only way [to do that]...is having people there who will do just that."[13] Styles of address
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Notes1. ^{{cite web|title=Deputy Chief Whip, Treasurer of HM Household - Anne Milton|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/anne-milton|publisher=Gov.uk|date=13 May 2014|accessdate=13 May 2015}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Gavin Barwell given ancient Government role after holding on to Croydon Central seat|url=http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/12947240.Gavin_Barwell_given_new_Government_role_after_holding_on_to_Croydon_Central_seat/|publisher=Your Local Guardan|date=13 May 2014|accessdate=13 May 2015}} 3. ^[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-7-october-2013 Ministerial appointments 7 October 2013] Gov.uk 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=61377 |date=13 October 2015 |page=19146}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-05-12/Debate-2.html|title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 12 May 1992|work=parliament.uk}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.fsf.org.uk/news/Safe-Standing-Bill-launched-in-Parliament.php|title=Safe Standing Bill launched in Parliament|work=fsf.org.uk}} 7. ^{{cite web |publisher=Privy Council Office |title=Privy Counsellors |url=https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/privy-council/privy-council-members/privy-counsellors/ |accessdate=3 November 2016}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=Liberal Democrat MP for Bath Don Foster to stand down|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-25659811#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa|accessdate=9 January 2014|newspaper=BBC News|date=9 January 2014}} 9. ^1 {{cite web|title=Don Foster MP|url=http://www.politicaldevelopments.com/downloads/Don%20Foster%20MP.pdf|publisher=Political Developments Ltd|accessdate=1 September 2013}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://debatinggroup.org.uk|title=The Debating Group|work=debatinggroup.org.uk}} 11. ^{{cite web|title=Our big gig|url=http://www.libdemvoice.org/don-foster-mp-writes-our-big-gig-34429.html|publisher=Liberal Democrat Voice|accessdate=1 September 2013}} 12. ^{{cite web|title=Dissolution Peerages 2015|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2015|website=Gov.uk|accessdate=27 August 2015}} 13. ^{{Cite web|title = Don Foster to accept "ludicrous" Lords peerage|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-34083490|website = BBC News|accessdate = 2015-08-28}} External links
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