Tim Renton Baron Renton of Mount Harry Politician
Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, PC (born 28 May 1932), is a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a Minister of State in both the Foreign Office and the Home Office, and served as Margaret Thatcher's Chief Whip (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) between 1989 and 1990. After Thatcher's resignation in 1990 he was promoted to the Cabinet serving in John Major's government as Minister for the Arts between 1990 and 1992.Tim Renton, who rarely uses his first name of Ronald, won scholarships to Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and graduated with a first class degree in History.He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid-Sussex from 1974 to 1997, after which he was created a life peer on 9 June 1997 as Baron Renton of Mount Harry, of Offham in the County of East Sussex, and took his seat in the House of Lords.He lives in Offham near Lewes in East Sussex and has a holiday home on the Hebridean island of Tiree.In 1960 he married Alice Blanche Helen Fergusson.Their four surviving children are Alexander James Torre (a journalist on The Times), Christian Louise, Daniel Charles Antony and (Katherine) Chelsea. Polly (Penelope Sally Rosita), the couple's youngest daughter, a documentary film maker, died in a car accident in 2010.
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