David Mellor
David Mellor was born in Wareham, England, United Kingdom on March 12th, 1949 and is the Politician. At the age of 75, David Mellor biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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David John Mellor (born 12 March 1949) is a British broadcaster, barrister, and former politician.
As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–92) and Secretary of State for National Heritage (April–September 1992), before resigning in 1992.
He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney from 1979 to 1997. Since leaving Parliament, Mellor has worked as a newspaper columnist, a radio presenter, after-dinner speaker, served as Chairman of the government's 'Football Task Force', and established a successful career as an international business consultant and entrepreneur.
Private life
Mellor married Judith Hall in Worthing on 20 July 1974. The couple had two sons before divorcing in 1995.
Mellor currently lives with his partner, Penelope Lyttelton, Viscountess Cobham.
Education and early career
Mellor was born in Wareham, Dorset, and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he served as Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and a contestant on the University Challenge. Mellor was summoned to the Bar after briefly serving for Jeffrey Archer (at the time a Member of Parliament) while preparing for his bar exams. Following his election as an MP, he stopped to practice in 1979, and he is still "non-practising." In 1987, he was named King's Counsel.
Parliamentary career
Mellor became the MP for Putney in the general election of 1979 and then held the seat until 1997 after contesting West Bromwich East in the general election in October 1974.
In 1981, Mellor was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Energy.
Mellor was first appointed as a minister in the Home Office in 1983, where he served on several pieces of legislation, including the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (which established the Crown Prosecu Service). He was also involved in the establishment of miscarriages of justice and the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Mellor was sent by Thatcher to the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office in 1987 and was made responsible for the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union (well before 1989's revolutions). After Dark's appearance on the Channel 4 discussion show after speaking about the Mafia, he made a long appearance.
Mellor served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in 1988, when he was in charge of health care reforms. He was made a Privy Councillor by Thatcher in 1990, shortly before she resigned as Prime Minister.
Mellor served as Minister for the Arts in 1990 before joining John Major's new Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in November of that year. Following the unveiling of the Calcutt Review inquiring into Press Standards, he was interviewed on the TV show Hard News in December 1991. During the interview, Mellor said that "the press – the ubiquitous press – is on the verge of dying" and that the "sacred cow" of press freedom is being reduced, which is why Mellor said.
Following the 1992 United Kingdom general election, Mellor retained as the Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport in the newly formed Department of National Heritage (now known as the Department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport), during which time he was occasionally described as the "Minister for Fun" in the waiting media after he left 10 Downing Street on his appointment.
In July 1992, Mellor's ex mistress, actress Antonia de Sancha, sold her "kiss and tell" account of Mellor's extramarital affair with her for £35,000, prompting retaliation from the media for his "last chance saloon" remark. Their telephone conversations had been illegally recorded by de Sancha's landlord, which was illegal in England at the time. The Sun made a number of incorrect assumptions about the friendship, which de Sancha later revealed. This was later confirmed by David Mellor in 2011 at the Leveson Inquiry into Press Behaviour.
The Prime Minister John Major endorsed Mellor, but the media kept their curiosity. Mona Bauwens' libel case against The People, which came to the High Court in September 1992, culminated in the discovery that Mellor had accepted the gift of a month-long holiday in Marbella from Bauwens for his family, which occurred in August 1990. Mellor's links to Bauwens, the granddaughter of Jaweed al-Ghussein, the PLO's finance director (formerly the Palestine National Fund), maintained the pressure on him. Mellor resigned on September 24, 1992.
Mellor ran in the 1997 general election but was defeated by Labour's Tony Colman as one of the most notable Tory casualties as Labour gained by a landslide to bring an end to almost 20 years of Conservative government. Mellor's showdown with Referendum Party founder Sir James Goldsmith was memorable — Goldsmith and Michael Yardley, the Spokesperson for the Sportsman's Alliance, booed him "Out!"Out!
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During Mellor's concession address, he made a remark.Mellor retorted:
On July 18, 1997, Goldsmith would die from pancreatic cancer two months later.