| 词条 | Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine |
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Coleraine | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} | image = Lord Coleraine.jpg | alt = | caption = | office1 = Minister of Education | term_start1 = 24 May 1945 | term_end1 = 26 July 1945 | predecessor1 = Rab Butler | successor1 = Ellen Wilkinson |office2 = Member of Parliament for Haltemprice |term_start2 = 24 February 1950 |term_end2 = 12 February 1954 |predecessor2 = New constituency |successor2 = Patrick Wall |office3 = Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull South West |term_start3 = 28 October 1931 |term_end3 = 26 July 1945 |predecessor3 = John Arnott |successor3 = Sydney Smith | birth_name = Richard Kidston Law | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1901|02|27}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1980|11|15|1901|02|27}} | death_place = | nationality = British | education = Shrewsbury School | alma_mater = St John's College, Oxford | occupation = Politician | party = Conservative | denomination = | spouse = Mary Virginia Nellis | children = 2 | parents = {{plain list|
}} | box_width = }} Richard Kidston Law, 1st Baron Coleraine, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} (27 February 1901 – 15 November 1980) was a British Conservative politician. Background and early lifeHe was the youngest son of the former Conservative Prime Minister Bonar Law and his wife Annie. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Oxford.[1] Political careerLaw was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hull South West in the general election of 1931 and held the seat until 1945. In 1940 he was appointed Financial Secretary to the War Office. He was then transferred to the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until 1943. While in the latter post he took part in the Bermuda Conference on the fate of European Jewry[2] and was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1943 New Year Honours.[3] He was then Minister of State, also at the Foreign Office, until 1945, when he served briefly as Minister of Education in Churchill's caretaker government. In a by-election in November 1945 he became MP for Kensington South, which he held until February 1950. Law was again elected as an MP in the election of 1951, this time for Haltemprice, but he resigned this seat in February 1954 and was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Coleraine of Haltemprice in the East Riding of the County of York.[4] FamilyLord Coleraine (when still Richard Law) had married Mary Virginia, daughter of Abraham Fox Nellis, of Rochester, New York, in 1929. He died on 15 November 1980, age 79, and was succeeded in the barony by his son James Martin Bonar Law. Styles of address
BooksReturn from UtopiaIn 1950 Law published Return from Utopia, a book in which he stated his belief that trying to use the power of the state to create any sort of Utopia is not just unattainable but positively evil, because one of the first principles to be sacrificed is the principle of freedom and individual choice. Law argued: To turn our backs on Utopia, to see it for the sham and the delusion that it is, is the beginning of hope. It is to hold out once again the prospect of a society in which man is free to be good because he is free to choose. Freedom is the first condition of human virtue and Utopia is incompatible with freedom. Come back from Utopia and hope is born again.[5] For Conservatives OnlyIn 1970 Lord Coleraine published another book, For Conservatives Only, in which he criticised the Conservative leadership of the time for, in his view, sacrificing Tory principles for electoral expediency and the pursuit of the "middle ground". At this time he was Patron of the Selsdon Group of Conservative MPs. Notes1. ^{{cite web |publisher=The Peerage |title=Richard Kidston Law, 1st Baron Coleraine |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p24376.htm#i243757 |accessdate=8 January 2017}} 2. ^David Blair, "The Bermuda Conference that Failed to Save the Jews," The Daily Telegraph (London), Saturday 31 January 2015. 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=35841 |date=29 December 1942 |page=1}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=40103 |date=16 February 1954 |page=1008}} 5. ^Richard Law, Return from Utopia (London: Faber & Faber, 1950), p. 9. External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Hull South West | years = 1931–1945 | before = John Arnott | after = Sydney Herbert Smith }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Kensington South | years = 1945–1950 | before = Sir William Davison | after = Sir Patrick Spens }}{{s-new | constituency }}{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Haltemprice | years = 1950–1954 }}{{s-aft | after = Sir Patrick Wall }}{{s-off|uk}}{{succession box|title=Financial Secretary to the War Office|before=Edward Grigg|after=Duncan Sandys|years=1940–1941}}{{succession box|title=Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|before=Rab Butler|after=George Henry Hall|years=1941–1943}}{{succession box|title=Minister of State for Foreign Affairs|before=Unknown|after=William Mabane|years=1943–1945}}{{succession box|title=Minister of Education|before=Rab Butler|after=Ellen Wilkinson|years=1945}}{{s-reg|uk}}{{s-new | creation }}{{s-ttl | title=Baron Coleraine | years= 1954–1980 }}{{s-aft | after=James Martin Bonar Law }}{{s-end}}{{Churchill Caretaker Ministry}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Law, Richard}} 14 : 1901 births|1980 deaths|Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom|People educated at Shrewsbury School|British Secretaries of State for Education|Children of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom|UK MPs 1931–35|UK MPs 1935–45|UK MPs 1945–50|UK MPs 1950–51|UK MPs 1951–55|War Office personnel in World War II|Alumni of St John's College, Oxford |
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