Robert Boscawen

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The Right Hon. Robert Thomas Boscawen PC (born 17 March 1923) is a British Conservative politician.

[edit] Background and education

The son of Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen, eighth Viscount Falmouth, of Tregothnan, near Truro, and a member of a very old Cornish family, Boscawen was educated at West Downs School and Eton College.

[edit] Career

He was a Member of Parliament for twenty-two years, and at the time of his election was a member of the Conservative Monday Club. For thirteen years, from 1970 until 1983, he was the member for Wells, then as the result of boundary changes his constituency became Somerton and Frome, which he held for a further nine years, from 1983 to 1992.

Boscawen served as a government whip from 1981, and was Comptroller of the Royal Household from 1988 to 1989. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1992, in the same year that he retired from the House of Commons.

[edit] References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987, www.angeltowns.com

Political offices
Preceded by Carol Mather	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1983–1986	Succeeded by Tristan Garel-Jones
Preceded by Carol Mather	Comptroller of the Household 1986-1988	Succeeded by Tristan Garel-Jones
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lynch Maydon	Member for Wells 1970–1983	Succeeded by David Heathcoat-Amory
Preceded by New constituency	Member of Parliament for Somerton and Frome 1983-1992	Succeeded by Mark Noel Foster Robinson