David Waddington, Baron Waddington

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David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington, GCVO, PC, QC, DL (born 2 August 1929) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.

Educated at Hertford College, Oxford, where he was chairman of the Oxford University 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. A junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, Waddington was Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Employment (1981-83), Minister of State at the Home Office (1983-87) and Chief Whip from 1987 until his elevation to Cabinet level, becoming Home Secretary in 1989. In 1990 he was created a life peer as Baron Waddington, of Read in the County of Lancashire. He served as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords until 1992. He later served as Governor of Bermuda. Lord Waddington is currently Chairman of the European Reform Forum.

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