Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood

William Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood DL, usually called Richard Inglewood (born 31 July 1951), is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

The Right Honourable The Lord Inglewood DL
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Broadcasting and Tourism
In office 8 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Viscount Astor
Succeeded by	Mark Fisher
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard
In office 12 January 1995 – 8 July 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Earl of Arran
Succeeded by	The Lord Chesham
Lord-in-waiting Government Whip
In office 21 July 1994 – 12 January 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Lord Annaly
Succeeded by	The Earl of Lindsay
Member of the European Parliament
In office 10 June 1999 – 9 June 2004
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	John Whittaker
Constituency	North West England
In office 15 June 1989 – 9 June 1994
Preceded by	Sheila Faith
Succeeded by	Tony Cunningham
Constituency	Cumbria and Lancashire North
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 November 1989 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	The 1st Lord Inglewood
Personal details
Born	31 July 1951
Political party	Non-affiliated
Other political affiliations	Conservative Party (until 2018)

Lord (Richard) Inglewood is a non-affiliated Member of the House of Lords, a barrister and Chartered Surveyor, and has an MA in Land Economy from Trinity College Cambridge. He was a Minister in John Major's Government, serving as a Whip and Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords in 1995 and as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of National Heritage 1995–97 where he was responsible for broadcasting and heritage, and Minister for Tourism 1995–1997. Between 2011 and 2014 he was Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, and 2014–2015 Chairman of the Select Committee on Extradition Law.

From 1989 to 2004 he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) where he was the Conservative spokesman on Legal Affairs, and Chief Whip in 1994. He was Chairman of the CN Group, an independent local media business based in Carlisle 2002–2016, Chairman of Carr's Milling Industries plc 2005–2013, and of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art 2003–2014, Chairman of Gen2 from 2016 until 2018 and President of Cumbria Tourist Board 2004 to 2019. He was a visiting parliamentary fellow at St Antony's College Oxford 2014–2015, Chairman of the Cumbria Local Nature Partnership 2013–2017. Member Lake District Special Planning Board 1983–1989, Chairman of the Development Control (Planning Committee) of the Lake District National Park 1985–1989, Board Member North West Water Authority 1987–1989.

He has been a Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria since 1993 and was appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant in 2013. He is currently chairman of the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership.[1] He has been President of the Ancient Monuments Society since 2015, President of the British Art Market Federation since 2014, President of the Uplands Alliance since 2015, Patron of the Livestock Auctioneers Association since 2016, President of the National Sheep Association since 2017, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) since 2002 and is a Director/Trustee of the Public Interest News Foundation.

Personal life

Inglewood is the eldest son of former Conservative Member of Parliament William Fletcher-Vane and his wife Mary née Proby. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1975. He married Cressida Pemberton-Pigott in 1986. They have one son, Henry William Frederick Fletcher-Vane born in 1990, and two daughters.

His home is Hutton-in-the-Forest in Cumbria.

Political career

At the 1983 general election, he stood as the Conservative candidate in the safe Labour constituency of Houghton and Washington, where he finished third with 24% of the votes.

At the 1984 European Parliament election he stood unsuccessfully in the Durham constituency, but at the 1989 election he was elected as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria and Lancashire North. He lost his seat the 1994 election, but at the European Parliament election, 1999 he was elected for the new North West England constituency. He did not contest the 2004 election.

He was a government whip in the Lords from 1994 to 1995, serving as Deputy Chief Whip from January to July 1995. He was then appointed as a junior minister in the Department of National Heritage, serving until the Conservatives lost office at the 1997 general election.

References

1. "Cumbria LEP names new Chairman". Place NorthWest.