John Wakeham

John Wakeham

John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, PC, DL (born June 22, 1932), is a businessman and British Conservative Party politician.

Since he left government, he has been active in business again, notably being an director of Enron before its collapse. [ [http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/10095 UC reaches $168-million settlement with Enron directors in securities fraud case] at universityofcalifornia.edu]

Educated at Charterhouse School, he was a successful accountant and later businessman before his election to the
House of Commons for Maldon, Essex in 1974. He became a minister after Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1979.

His first wife, Roberta, was killed in the Brighton hotel bombing in October 1984 and he himself was trapped in rubble for seven hours, suffering serious crush injuries to his legs. They had two children together. He married his second wife Alison Ward MBE in 1985Fact|date=February 2007 and they have a son of their own. She had been his secretary and, before that, was Margaret Thatcher's secretary.

During the late eighties he served as Leader of the House of Commons, in which capacity he was responsible for the first televisings of Parliament, and as Energy Secretary (1989–1992), where he drew up plans for the privatisation of electricity.

He was appointed a life peer as Baron Wakeham, of Maldon in the County of Essex in 1992 by John Major, and then was Leader of the House of Lords until 1994. He became chairman of the Press Complaints Commission in 1995, retiring in 2001. In 1997, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire. Tony Blair appointed him in 1999 to head a Royal Commission on reform of the House of Lords — the resulting report suggested a mainly appointed Lords be maintained, with a small elected component.

References

* [http://www.apfn.org/enron/wakeham.htm ENRON'S John Wakeham] at apfn.org


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