David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

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The Right Honourable  David Howell  Baron Howell of Guildford, PC
Secretary of State for Transport
In office 14 September 1981 – 11 June 1983
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Norman Fowler
Succeeded by	Tom King
Secretary of State for Energy
In office 4 May 1979 – 14 September 1981
Preceded by	Tony Benn
Succeeded by	Nigel Lawson
Born	January 18, 1936 (1936-01-18) (age 72) London, UK
Political party	Conservative

David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC, (born January 18, 1936) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. His daughter Frances is married to the Conservative MP George Osborne.

[edit] Early life

Educated at Eton he then served in the 2nd Btn Coldstream Guards between 1954-56 prior to going up to King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1959. He worked in HM Treasury from 1959-60 and then spent five years as a journalist on the Daily Telegraph before he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Dudley in the 1964 General Election.

[edit] Member of Parliament

Two years later he won the seat of Guildford in Surrey, a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 General Election.

When Margaret Thatcher was elected in 1979, she made Howell her first Secretary of State for Energy and then moved him to Transport in the reshuffle of September 1981. In 1987 he became chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He is credited with having coined the term 'privatisation'.

In 1997, he was made a life peer as Baron Howell of Guildford, of Penton Mewsey in the County of Hampshire.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Richard Hodges Nugent	Member of Parliament for Guildford 1966–1997	Succeeded by Nick St Aubyn
Political offices
Preceded by Tony Benn	Secretary of State for Energy 1979–1981	Succeeded by Nigel Lawson
Preceded by Norman Fowler	Secretary of State for Transport 1981–1983	Succeeded by Tom King