David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington , PC (born August 2 , 1929 ), is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom .
Hertford College, Oxford , where he was chairman of the university's Conservative Association, he was called to the Bar in 1951 . He was first elected to Parliament in 1968 , for Nelson and Colne . He left in 1974 and was returned again in 1979 for Clitheroe , the constituency being renamed Ribble Valley in 1983 . He served as a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher , and eventually rose to Cabinet level becoming Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1989 . In 1990 he was given a life peerage, becoming Baron Waddington . He served as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords until 1992. He later served as Governor of Bermuda .
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David Waddington, Baron Waddington - Biocrawler (158 words)
David Charles Waddington , Baron Waddington , PC (born August 2, 1929 ), is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He served as a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher , and eventually rose to Cabinet level becoming Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1989 . In 1990 he was given a life peerage, becoming Baron Waddington .
Waddington, David (103 words)
My grandfather David Waddington emigrated to Canada with his wife Ethel Bate when he was approximately 20? years old together with his sister Laura, and his parents Richard Waddington and Emily Mallard from Lancashire. David left the family when my mother born 1919 was approximately 9 years old in 1929 in Toronto.
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