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Brian Mawhinney

The Right Honourable
The Lord Mawhinney
PC
Shadow Home Secretary
In office
11 June 1997 – 11 April 1998
Leader William Hague
Preceded by Michael Howard
Succeeded by Norman Fowler
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office
5 July 1995 – 11 June 1997
Leader John Major
Preceded by Jeremy Hanley
Succeeded by Cecil Parkinson
Minister without Portfolio
In office
5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister John Major
Preceded by Jeremy Hanley
Succeeded by Peter Mandelson
Secretary of State for Transport
In office
20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995
Prime Minister John Major
Preceded by John MacGregor
Succeeded by George Young
Minister of State for Health
In office
14 April 1992 – 20 July 1994
Prime Minister John Major
Preceded by Virginia Bottomley
Succeeded by Gerry Malone
Member of Parliament
for Peterborough
In office
3 May 1979 – 1 May 1997
Preceded by Michael Ward
Succeeded by Helen Clark
Member of Parliament
for North West Cambridgeshire
In office
2 May 1997 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Shailesh Vara
Personal details
Born (1940-07-26) 26 July 1940 (age 76)
Belfast, United Kingdom
Political party Conservative
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast
University College London
Religion Christianity

Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney, PC (born 26 July 1940) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was a member of the Cabinet from 1994 until 1997 and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 until 2005.

Mawhinney was born in 1940 in Belfast and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He studied physics at Queen's University of Belfast, gaining an upper second class degree in 1963 and obtained a Ph.D. in radiation physics at the Royal Free Hospital in London in 1969 with thesis title Studies on the effects of radiation on mammalian bone grown in vitro. He worked as assistant professor of radiation research at the University of Iowa from 1968–70 and then returned to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine as a lecturer from 1970–84.

Mawhinney contested in October 1974 but lost to Labour incumbent, Bill Rodgers. Mawhinney served as Member of Parliament for Peterborough from 1979-97 and Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2005. Mawhinney campaigned prolifically against pornography. In 1979 one of his bills was in the Private Members’ Bills ballot, which attempted to ban indecent displays outside cinemas, sex shops and strip clubs. In early 1980, he called for Keith Joseph to launch an inquiry into a page on the Post Office’s Prestel viewdata service, called "A Buyer's Guide to Dirty Books".


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