Alastair Goodlad, Baron Goodlad
- Alastair Goodlad, Baron Goodlad
Alastair Robertson Goodlad, Baron Goodlad, KCMG, PC, (born 4 July 1943) is a British Conservative politician who served as the British High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 until 2005.
Goodlad attended Marlborough College and studied law at King's College, Cambridge.
Member of Parliament successively for Northwich (1974–83) and Eddisbury (1983–99), Goodlad served as a junior Foreign Office minister then as Prime Minister John Major's Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip. Following the 1997 election, he served in the shadow cabinet as shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Chief Whip.
Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair then appointed Goodlad as High Commissioner to Australia. Goodlad accepted the office of Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds on 28 June 1999 to formally vacate his seat, triggering the Eddisbury by-election.
Goodlad took up office as High Commissioner in 2000. At the end of his term in 2005, he was replaced by former Secretary of State for Scotland, Helen Liddell.On 13 May 2005 it was announced that he would be created a life peer, and on 19 July he was created Baron Goodlad, of Lincoln in the County of Lincolnshire. He sits on the Conservative benches and is a member of the Constitution Select Committee.
Goodlad married Cecilia Hurst in 1968 and has two sons.
External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/cabinet/shadow.htm "The Shadow Cabinet" - BBC Election '97]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/571259.stm "Another Tory wooed by Blair" - BBC News]
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