| 词条 | George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth |
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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = The Lord Thomson of Monifieth |honorific-suffix = KT PC DL FRSE |image = George Thomson 1966.jpg |office = European Commissioner for Regional Policy |president = François-Xavier Ortoli |term_start = 6 January 1973 |term_end = 5 January 1977 |predecessor = Albert Borschette |successor = Antonio Giolitti |office1 = Shadow Secretary of State for Defence |leader1 = Harold Wilson |term_start1 = 8 July 1970 |term_end1 = 10 April 1972 |predecessor1 = Geoffrey Rippon |successor1 = Fred Peart |office2 = Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |primeminister2 = Harold Wilson |term_start2 = 6 October 1969 |term_end2 = 20 June 1970 |predecessor2 = Frederick Lee |successor2 = Anthony Barber |primeminister3 = Harold Wilson |term_start3 = 6 April 1966 |term_end3 = 7 January 1967 |predecessor3 = Douglas Houghton |successor3 = Frederick Lee |office4 = Minister without Portfolio |primeminister4 = Harold Wilson |term_start4 = 17 October 1968 |term_end4 = 6 October 1969 |predecessor4 = Patrick Gordon-Walker |successor4 = The Lord Drumalbyn |office5 = Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs |primeminister5 = Harold Wilson |term_start5 = 29 August 1967 |term_end5 = 17 October 1968 |predecessor5 = Herbert Bowden |successor5 = Michael Stewart {{small|(Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)}} |office6 = Member of Parliament for Dundee East |term_start6 = 17 July 1952 |term_end6 = 1 March 1973 |predecessor6 = Thomas Cook |successor6 = George Machin |birth_date = {{birth date|1921|1|16|df=y}} |birth_place = Penn, England, UK |death_date = {{death date and age|2008|10|3|1921|1|16|df=y}} |death_place = London, England, UK |party = Labour Party {{small|(Before 1981)}} Social Democratic {{small|(1981–1988)}} Liberal Democrats {{small|(1988–2008)}} |spouse = Grace Thomson |children = Caroline }} George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE (16 January 1921 – 3 October 2008) was a journalist and British politician who served as a Labour Party MP. He was a member of Harold Wilson's cabinet, and later became a European Commissioner. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. Early lifeThomson was educated at Grove Academy, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, and served in the Royal Air Force from 1941–46.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}} He was the assistant editor and then editor of Forward, a socialist newspaper, from 1946–53.[1] Political careerAt the 1950 and 1951 general elections, Thomson stood unsuccessfully in Glasgow Hillhead. In 1952, he was elected Member of Parliament in a by-election for Dundee East, where he served until his resignation in 1972. He served in the Wilson government as Minister of State, Foreign Office, from October 1964 to April 1966, then as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1966–67, and again from 1969–70, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs from 1967–68, and Minister without Portfolio from 1968–69. During his time as Commonwealth Secretary he had responsibility for trying to reach a settlement of the Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) question and for implementing sanctions against the regime there. He was one of the first British Commissioners of the European Community (EC) from 1973–77, with responsibility for regional policy. As chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1981–88 he oversaw the introduction of Channel 4 and TV-am.[2] He was Chair of the Advertising Standards Authority from 1977–80; Chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) 1981–88; a European Commissioner, with responsibility for Regional Policy 1973–76; First Crown Estate Commissioner from 1977–80; and a Member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life from 1994 until 1997. He was Deputy Chair of the Woolwich Building Society from 1988–91. He had been a Lords' Member of the Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit since 1993. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Television Society, and a patron of Sustrans.[3] In 1985 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland; he chose "Does Public Broadcasting Have a Future? The Challenge of the New Technologies".[4] After moving with his wife, Grace, to Charing, Kent, Thomson held the position of Party President, for Ashford Liberal Democrats, from 1999–2006. {{Citation needed|date=February 2013}} DeathHe died on Friday 3 October 2008 at London's St Thomas' Hospital, from a viral infection.[5][6] He was survived by his wife, Grace, Lady Thomson (1925-2014),[7] and their two daughters, Ailsa and Caroline,[8] the former Chief Operating Officer of the BBC. Honours and styles of addressHonoursThomson received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1973.[9] Thomson was made a Privy Counsellor in 1966, was created a Life Peer on 23 March 1977 as Baron Thomson of Monifieth, of Monifieth in the District of the City of Dundee,[10] and became a Knight of the Thistle in 1981.[11] Styles of address
References1. ^Ian MacDougall, Voices from Work and Home, p.563 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3141475/Lord-Thomson-of-Monifieth.html|title=Lord Thomson of Monifieth|accessdate=9 October 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sustrans.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1092993897390|title=Sustrans: join the movement|accessdate=4 October 2008}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.iesis.org/macmillan.html |title=Hugh Miller Macmillan |work=Macmillan Memorial Lectures |publisher=Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004102303/http://www.iesis.org/macmillan.html |archivedate=2018-10-04 |accessdate=2019-01-29 }} 5. ^Former Minister Lord Thomson dies 6. ^Daily Record obituary for Lord Thomson 7. ^Tam Dalyell [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lady-thomson-wife-of-the-mp-george-thomson-who-helped-smooth-her-husbands-path-to-success-in-brussels-9688173.html "Lady Thomson: Wife of the MP George Thomson who helped smooth her husband’s path to success in Brussels"], The Independent, 24 August 2014 8. ^Tom Leonard [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1349832/BBC-steps-into-new-bias-row.html "BBC steps into new bias row"], Daily Telegraph, 22 July 2000 9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title=Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|last=webperson@hw.ac.uk|website=www1.hw.ac.uk|access-date=2016-04-07}} 10. ^{{London Gazette |issue=47181 |date=24 March 1977 |page=4039}} 11. ^{{London Gazette |issue=48810 |date=1 December 1981 |page=15283}} External links
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