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词条 Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell
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  1. Early life

  2. Political career

  3. Later career

  4. Works

  5. References

  6. External links

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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable
|name = The Lord Crickhowell
|honorific-suffix = PC
|image = Lord Crickhowell 2017.jpg
|office = Secretary of State for Wales
|primeminister = Margaret Thatcher
|term_start = 4 May 1979
|term_end = 13 June 1987
|predecessor = John Morris
|successor = Peter Walker
|office1 = Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
|leader1 = Margaret Thatcher
|term_start1 = 18 February 1975
|term_end1 = 4 May 1979
|predecessor1 =
|successor1 = John Morris
|constituency_MP2 = Pembrokeshire
|term_start2 = 18 June 1970
|term_end2 = 11 June 1987
|predecessor2 = Desmond Donnelly
|successor2 = Nicholas Bennett
|office3 = Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
|term_start3 = 15 October 1987
|term_end3 = 17 March 2018
Life Peerage
|birth_name = Roger Nicholas Edwards
|birth_date = 25 February 1934
|birth_place = London, England, U.K.
|death_date = 17 March 2018 (aged 84)
|death_place =
|party = Conservative
|alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge
}}Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, PC (25 February 1934 – 17 March 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as an MP from 1970 until 1987 and as Secretary of State for Wales during the first two terms of the Thatcher government.[1]

Early life

Edwards was educated at Westminster School and, after completing National Service in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in history in 1957.[2][3] He was a director of William Brandt's insurance brokers and became a member of Lloyds in 1965.[4][3]

Political career

Edwards left insurance to take Desmond Donnelly's old seat of Pembroke and served as Secretary of State for Wales in Margaret Thatcher's first and second administrations.[3]

He was adopted by the Pembrokeshire Conservative Party as parliamentary candidate for Pembroke in 1968.[4]

At the 1970 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, which he represented until his retirement at the 1987 general election.[3] From 1975 to 1979, he was Opposition Spokesman for Welsh Affairs (in other words, the Shadow Secretary of State for Wales).[4] When Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979, Edwards was appointed Secretary of State for Wales.[4] He served in that position until 1987, when he was given a life peerage, being created on 15 October 1987 as Baron Crickhowell, of Pont Esgob in the Black Mountains and County of Powys.[4][5]

Later career

Lord Crickhowell was the sole chairman of the National Rivers Authority (NRA) from its inception in 1989 until its merger into the newly created Environment Agency in 1996.[6] Although his was a direct political appointment from the Conservative government, Lord Crickhowell showed commitment to the principles of the NRA and the legislation that it enforced.[3] He spoke in favour of the natural environment and supporting strong enforcement action against major corporate polluters.[7]

During the 1990s, Lord Crickhowell became a leading figure in the campaign for a permanent home for the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff.[8] When the plans were rejected by the Government in 1995, he launched a public attack on his former Conservative colleagues.[9][10]

Lord Crickhowell sat in the House of Lords as a life peer for over 30 years from 1987 until his death in 2018, making his last appearance in September 2017.[11] He had been associated with many British institutions, including the University of Wales, Cardiff (now Cardiff University), where he was awarded an honorary fellowship in 1984 and served as president from 1988 to 1998.[12][7][13] He received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Glamorgan in 2001.[14][15]

He died on 17 March 2018 at the age of 84.[16] A memorial service was held at St Margaret's Church Westminster on 23 October 2018. [17]

Works

  • {{cite speech|title=The Welsh language, a commitment and challenge: the government's policy for the Welsh language|author = (as Nicholas Edwards)|isbn=9780904251401|publisher=HMSO}} 1980
  • {{cite book|title=Opera House Lottery: Zaha Hadid and the Cardiff Bay Project |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Westminster-Wales-Water-Nicholas-Crickhowell/dp/0708315224|date=|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0708314425|author = (as Nicholas Crickhowell)}} September 1997
  • {{cite book|title=Westminster, Wales and Water|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Westminster-Wales-Water-Nicholas-Crickhowell/dp/0708315224|date=|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0708315224|author = (as Nicholas Crickhowell)}} October 1999
  • {{cite speech|title=The Conservative Party And Wales|series=The Welsh Political Archive Annual Lecture|url=https://www.llgc.org.uk/fileadmin/fileadmin/docs_gwefan/casgliadau/archifau/archif_wleidyddol/darlith_awg/dar_awg_lord_crickhowell_2006.pdf|author = (as Lord Crickhowell)|via=The National Library of Wales}} 2006
  • {{cite book|title=The Rivers Join: The Story of a Family|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rivers-Join-Story-Family/dp/1425191428|date=|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=978-1425191429|author = (as Nicholas Crickhowell)}} November 2009

References

1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=WN6eAAAAIAAJ&q=Nicholas+Edwards,+Baron+Crickhowell+1934+in&dq=Nicholas+Edwards,+Baron+Crickhowell+1934+in&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1L3BUraYAsXuoATozYKoCw&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBg Who's Who in European Politics] page 149
2. ^{{cite web|title=Lord Crickhowell Papers|url=http://arcw.llgc.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=78171&inst_id=1&term=Edwards%20%7C%20Nicholas%20%7C%201934-%20%7C%20Lord%20Crickhowell|website=Archives Wales|publisher=National Library of Wales|accessdate=20 March 2018}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=The International Who's Who 2004|date=2003|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=9781857432176|page=373|chapter=Crickhowell, Baron (Life Peer)|chapter-url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=%22nicholas+edwards%22+crickhowell+lloyds+member+who%27s+who&source=bl&ots=3cJdl6_Ox-&sig=XVQlxJYIgIIXkg2TZS5ZQGLw9YY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJxPqPhoHaAhXGY8AKHaFfAI4Q6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=%22nicholas%20edwards%22%20crickhowell%20lloyds%20member%20who's%20who&f=false|accessdate=22 March 2018|edition=67th|editor-last=Sleeman|editor-first=Elizabeth}}
4. ^{{cite journal|journal = Journal of the Pembrokeshire Historical Society | number = 17|last1=Jones|first1=J. Graham|title=The Pembrokeshire General Election of 1970 |url=http://www.pembrokeshirehistoricalsociety.co.uk/the-pembrokeshire-general-election-of-1970/|publisher=Pembrokeshire Historical Society|accessdate=24 March 2018|date=2008}}
5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=51096 |date=20 October 1987 |page=12939|title=State Intelligence: Crown Office}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=Obituary: Nicholas Edwards, Lord Crickhowell|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40582767|accessdate=20 March 2018|publisher=BBC News|date=19 March 2018}}
7. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news|title=Lord Crickhowell obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/19/lord-crickhowell-obituary|accessdate=20 March 2018|work=The Guardian|date=19 March 2018}}
8. ^{{cite news|last1=Blake|first1=Aled|title=So, which Secretary of State for Wales from the past has left us the greatest legacy?|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/news-opinion/welsh-secretaries-legacies---whos-7457658|accessdate=20 March 2018|work=WalesOnline|publisher=Media_Wales|date=20 July 2014}}
9. ^{{cite news|last1=Darnton|first1=John|author-link=John Darnton|title=Britain Rejects Welsh Opera's Plea for Financing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/25/arts/britain-rejects-welsh-opera-s-plea-for-financing.html|accessdate=20 March 2018|work=The New York Times|issue=25 December 1995}}
10. ^{{cite news|last1=Dobson|first1=Roger|author-link=Roger Dobson|title=Leisure: Peer accuses leading Tories of failing Cardiff's opera project|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/leisure-peer-accuses-leading-tories-of-failing-cardiffs-opera-project-1241219.html|accessdate=20 March 2018|work=The Independent|date=25 September 1997}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/100153&showall=yes#divisions|title=Voting Record — Lord Crickhowell (13095) — The Public Whip|website=www.publicwhip.org.uk}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=A full list of recipients of our Honorary Fellowships|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/honorary-fellows/all-recipients|publisher=Cardiff University|accessdate=20 March 2018}}
13. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|title=Lord Crickhowell|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-crickhowell/1058|website=www.parliament.uk|accessdate=20 March 2018}}
14. ^{{cite book|editor1-last=Mosley|editor1-first=Charles|editor1-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist)|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage|date=2003|publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd|location=Wilmington, Delaware|edition=107}} as cited in {{cite web|title=Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p19117.htm|website=www.thepeerage.com|accessdate=20 March 2018|date=17 December 2008}}
15. ^{{cite web|title=Crickhowell|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-12337/version/9|website=Who's Who 2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=23 March 2018}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-43462349|title=Lord Crickhowell dies at the age of 84|date=19 March 2018|publisher=|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}
17. ^{{cite web |title=Thanksgiving service: Lord Crickhowell |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/thanksgiving-service-lord-crickhowell-9zm2k8xwq |website=The Times}}

External links

  • The Baron Crickhowell (Burke's Peerage)
  • {{Hansard-contribs | mr-nicholas-edwards | Nicholas Edwards }}
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