Sir Horace Walter Cutler (July 28, 1912 - March 2, 1997) was a British politician and Leader of the Greater London Council from 1977 to 1981. He was noted for his showmanship and flair for publicity, although sceptical of the merits of the authority he was in charge of. A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to its abolition in 1986. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sir Horace Cutler, Leader of the Greater London Council 1977-81

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Origin

Cutler was born in Stoke Newington into a large but wealthy family. He went to Harrow County Grammar School, and then joined his father's building business. He spent World War II in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and after the war became a businessman. Stoke Newington is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was by far the bloodiest and most expensive war in history, estimated... The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. ...

Local politics

In 1952 he first went into politics when he was elected as a Conservative member of Harrow Borough Council, where he became Leader of the Council in 1961. He was also elected to Middlesex County Council and was its last Leader, in 1963, before it was abolished to make way for the Greater London Council. 1952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The London Borough of Harrow is a London borough of outer northwest London. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Middlesex as a traditional county before 1888. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to its abolition in 1986. ...

GLC membership

Cutler took one of the Harrow seats on the GLC and remained a member of it throughout its existence, one of only eight people to do so. His prominence at Middlesex made him well-known and he served as Deputy Leader under Sir Desmond Plummer when the Conservatives were in control from 1967. Plummer gave Cutler the Chairmanship of the Housing Committee which gave him responsibilty for the GLC's hundreds of thousands of units of council housing. Cutler believed that local authorities had no role in housing, and instituted a scheme to allow tenants to buy their own homes at a discounted price - which later became one of the tenets of Thatcherism. He also forcibly transferred much of the GLC housing stock to the London Boroughs. The London Borough of Harrow is a London borough of outer northwest London. ... Arthur Desmond Herne Plummer, KBE, Baron Plummer of St. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The council house is a form of public housing found in the United Kingdom. ... Thatcherism is the system of political thought attributed to the governments of Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister during the 1980s. ...

Leader of the GLC

When the Conservatives lost control of the GLC in 1973 and Sir Desmond Plummer resigned as their Leader in 1974, Cutler was chosen as his successor. He was a populist and a showman who delighted in stunts, and when he won the 1977 GLC elections he became a very flamboyant Leader. He was sceptical of the merits of the GLC, seeing it as "too big, too remote and too shadowy", and set up an inquiry under Sir Frank Marshall into its powers and existence; Marshall found enough to justify the continuation of the GLC. 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...

Cutler wanted to extend the Jubilee Line into Docklands but was refused the money by the Labour Government. Investment on the London Underground was not substantial and decisions taken during his period of office have been much criticised subsequently for leading to poor infrastructure in the long term. Cutler was also noted for meddling in detailed Underground management, which London Transport Chairman Sir Peter Masefield had to persuade him to stop. He also made a failed bid to host the Olympic Games of 1988. The Jubilee Line is a line on the London Underground, coloured grey on the Tube map. ... Docklands is the semi-official name for an area in the east of London, England, comprising parts of several boroughs (Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Newham) in Greater London. ... Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and some outdoor signs. ... The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Loss of power

In the 1981 GLC elections, Cutler made a great deal of the fact that Andrew McIntosh was likely to be deposed by the much more left-wing Ken Livingstone if the Labour Party won. He concentrated on attacking Livingstone during the campaign, saying that he wished to establish a Marxist power-base in London. Nevertheless, Labour won, and McIntosh was duly voted out by Livingstone. 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ken Livingstone Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945), is a British local government leader. ...

Cutler gave up the Conservative Leadership in 1982, and left politics when the GLC was abolished in 1986. 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He died at age 84 in 1997.

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