The Commissioner is a 1998 Belgian-German drama film directed by George Sluizer, based on the novel of same name by Stanley Patrick Johnson, of West Nethercote, Winsford, Somerset, is a British politician and author, and an expert on environmental and population issues, and was a Conservative MEP for which organization, from 1979 to 1984?
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The Commissioner (film) The Commissioner is a 1998 Belgian-German drama film directed by George Sluizer and written by Christina Kallas based on the novel of same name by Stanley Johnson. It was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Stanley Johnson (writer) Stanley Patrick Johnson (born 18 August 1940) of West Nethercote, Winsford, Somerset, is a British politician and author, and an expert on environmental and population issues. He was a Conservative MEP for Wight & Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984 and is a former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission. He is co-chairman of Environmentalists for Europe (E4E), a collection of pro-EU environmentalists campaigning for the UK to remain a member of the EU.
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Peter Gladstone Peter Gladstone (16 October 1928 – 25 July 2000) was a British naturalist and wildfowl expert. He was the great grandson of the Liberal prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, and brother of Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet. He grew up at Hawarden Castle in Wales, and attended Eton College, where his father, Charles Gladstone, was a housemaster. He served in the Palestine Police in 1946, towards the end of the British Mandate of Palestine. From 1949 to 1952 he studied biology at Christ Church, Oxford, and rowed for Oxford in the 1952 Boat Race. He went on to teach biology at Shrewsbury School until 1971, when he joined Sir Peter Scott's Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. Gladstone developed the trust's wildfowl reserve at Martin Mere in Lancashire. In the 1970s he took over the management of Fasque House, a family property in Aberdeenshire. In 1998 he journeyed to Tibet in an unsuccessful search for the pink-headed duck. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Gladstone died of a heart attack at the age of 71.
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Christopher Pole-Carew Christopher Gerald Pole-Carew (born May 1931) in 1979 High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, was, "after serving in the Royal Navy," during his working life, a newspaper executive who rose to notoriety in his handling of trade union membership, initially as managing director of the Nottingham Evening Post who sacked journalists who joined the trade union or for going on strike for LESS pay than they were currently receiving - about £1,00 a year, and later under Rupert Murdoch, where his role included trade union matters. The appointment brought comment in the House of Commons.
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Howard Johnson (politician) Howard Sydney Johnson (25 December 1910 – 13 September 2000) was a British solicitor and building society director who became an unorthodox Conservative Party Member of Parliament. Johnson, who considered himself a radical, espoused many positions which put him outside the mainstream including opposition to fox hunting and support for unilateral nuclear disarmament. After leaving Parliament he passed through the Liberal Party and eventually into supporting the Labour Party.
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Desmond Swayne Sir Desmond Angus Swayne, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 20 August 1956) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of New Forest West in Hampshire. He was formerly also Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, having been his PPS during his time as Leader of the Opposition, 2005–10, prior to his appointment in September 2012 to the office of Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury. In June 2016, it was announced Swayne would receive a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours for political service.
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Richard Hornby Richard Phipps Hornby (20 June 1922 – 22 September 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman. He was Member of Parliament for Tonbridge for over 17½ years, from June 1956 to February 1974, holding a junior ministerial position for a year in the mid-1960s. He worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency before, during, and after his career in Parliament, and was Chairman the Halifax Building Society from 1983 to 1990.
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Mark Schreiber, Baron Marlesford Mark Shuldham Schreiber, Baron Marlesford (born 11 September 1931) is a British Conservative politician.
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Andrew Green, Baron Green of Deddington Andrew Fleming Green, Baron Green of Deddington, KCMG (born 6 August 1941) is a former British diplomat. He is the founding chairman of MigrationWatch UK, an organisation concerned with immigration to the United Kingdom. He has also held a number of positions with voluntary organisations.
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Michael Cashman Michael Maurice Cashman, Baron Cashman, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 17 December 1950) is a British Labour politician and former actor. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency from 1999 until he stood down in 2014. He has since then been appointed to the House of Lords. On 23 September 2014, Cashman was appointed the Labour Party's special envoy on LGBT issues worldwide.
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Hubert S. Martin Hubert Stanley Martin {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1879 – 17 November 1938) was a British diplomat, an early Scouting leader, The Boy Scouts Association's International Commissioner and the first director of the Boy Scouts International Bureau in 1920, a position he held until his death.
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Woodrow Wyatt Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford (4 July 1918 – 7 December 1997) was a British politician, published author, journalist and broadcaster, close to the Queen Mother, Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch. For the last 20 years of his life, he was chairman of the state betting organisation The Tote.
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Patrick Ashley Cooper Major Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper (18 November 1887 – 22 March 1961) was a British businessman who for more than two decades was governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and director of the Bank of England. He served as High Sheriff of the County of London and as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.
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Dick Sawle Richard "Dick" Sawle (born 1954) is a British born, Falkland Islands politician, who has served as Complaints Commissioner since 15 January 2014 and previously served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency from 2009 until 2013.
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Vernon Bartlett Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett, CBE (30 April 1894, Westbury, Wiltshire – 18 January 1983) was an English journalist, politician and author. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1938 to 1950: first as an Independent Progressive advocating a Popular Front, then for the Common Wealth Party, and then again as an Independent Progressive.
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Roger Helmer Roger Helmer (born 25 January 1944) is a British politician and businessman. He was the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region, and was the Head of Delegation for the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Before becoming an MEP, he was a business executive.
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Commissioner for Public Appointments The Commissioner for Public Appointments in England and Wales is a British public servant who heads the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in England and Wales. They ensure that ministerial public appointments in the United Kingdom are made on merit.
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Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe Joan Anna Dalziel Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe, DBE (born 3 May 1930, née Owen) is a British Conservative Party politician.
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Ken Collins Sir Ken Collins (* 12 August 1939 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a former Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
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Frank Dobson Frank Gordon Dobson (born 15 March 1940) is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997-1999, and was the official Labour Party candidate for Mayor of London in 2000, ultimately finishing third in the election, behind Conservative Steven Norris and the winner, Labour-turned-Independent Ken Livingstone. Dobson stood down at the United Kingdom general election, 2015.
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Ivone Kirkpatrick Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick (1897 – 25 May 1964) was a British diplomat who served as the British High Commissioner in Germany after World War II, and as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the highest-ranking civil servant in the Foreign Office)
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First Among Equals (novel) First Among Equals is a 1984 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer, which follows the careers and personal lives of four fictional British politicians (Simon Kerslake, MP for Coventry Central and later Pucklebridge; Charles Seymour, MP for Sussex Downs; Raymond Gould, MP for Leeds North; and Andrew Fraser, MP for Edinburgh Carlton) from 1964 to 1991, with each vying to become Prime Minister. Several situations in the novel are drawn from the author's own early political career in the British House of Commons, and the fictional characters interact with actual political figures from the UK and elsewhere including Winston Churchill, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, Douglas Hurd, Colonel Gadaffi, Gary Hart and Queen Elizabeth II.