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| Affiliation | Conservative |
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| Name | David Renton |
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August 12, 1908
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| Died | May 24, 2007
(98 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
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| Info | David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, KBE, QC, TD, DL, PC (August 12, 1908 - May 24, 2007), was a British politician.
Renton was educated at Oundle School and University College, Oxford. After qualifying as a barrister, he served in the Middle East for three years in World War II and was president of the military court in Tripolitania. He was National Liberal and then Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdonshire for 34 years, first elected in the 1945 general election. From 1961-1962 he was a Home Office minister. When he stood down from his Huntingdonshire seat, his successor as MP was the future Conservative Prime Minister John Major. In 1979 he was made a life peer, as Baron Renton, of Huntingdon in the County of Cambridgeshire, and took his seat in the House of Lords.
Renton was the oldest peer in the House of Lords from April 4, 2004 until his death. In July of 2003, just short of his 95th birthday, he passed his driving test for the first time. He was a regular driver since 1934, at a time when there was no formal driving test in the United Kingdom, although he has since stopped driving. He is also the second oldest living person to have served as a British Member of Parliament, after Bert Hazell.
He was been a leader in the movement to preserve the traditions of the House of Lords, including lifelong membership for members of the Peerage. According to the Washington Post in 2005, Renton maintains that "the genius of the upper house is that it includes world-renowned experts in law, science and the arts who would never run for election", and that "'Democracy has its limitations."'
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