Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton

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The Right HonourableThe Lord Lang of MonktonPC DL


Secretary of State for Trade and Industry President of the Board of Trade
In office 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Michael Heseltine
Succeeded by	Margaret Beckett
Secretary of State for Scotland
In office 28 November 1990 – 5 July 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Malcolm Rifkind
Succeeded by	Michael Forsyth
Member of Parliament for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Galloway (1979–1983)
In office 3 May 1979 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	George Thompson
Succeeded by	Alasdair Morgan

Personal details
Born	(1940-06-27) 27 June 1940 (age 84)
Alma mater	Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, PC DL (born 27 June 1940) is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997.

On 29 September 1997 Lang was raised to the peerage. He was an active member of the House of Lords until his retirement on 30 June 2022, including being the Chairman of the Constitution Committee. He also served as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments from 2009 to 2014.

Early life

Lang was educated at Lathallan School, at Rugby School from 1954 to 1958, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from 1959 to 1962, where he obtained a BA (Hons.) degree in history. He was also a member of the Cambridge Footlights.

Parliamentary career

Lang first stood for Parliament for Central Ayrshire in 1970, but was unsuccessful. In the February 1974 general election he was defeated by Labour's James White contesting Glasgow Pollok.

Following this he became MP for Galloway from 1979 to 1983 and for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale from 1983 to 1997, and was a minister for a number of years. He served as Assistant Government Whip from 1981 to 1983 and as Government Whip from 1983 to 1986, before becoming Under-Secretary of State for Employment in 1986. He then served as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1986 to 1987, before rising to the position of Minister of State for Scotland, which he held from 1987 to 1990. Lang then joined the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1990 to 1995, before becoming the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade from 1995 until 1997. He was closely involved in John Major's re-election campaign as leader of the Conservative Party in July 1995.

Lang lost his seat in the 1997 general election, one of seven Cabinet members to do so (the others being Malcolm Rifkind, Michael Portillo, Michael Forsyth, Roger Freeman, William Waldegrave and Tony Newton).

House of Lords

Following the loss of his seat, Lang was raised to the peerage in the 1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours as Baron Lang of Monkton, of Merrick and the Rhinns of Kells in Dumfries and Galloway. He has remained an active member of the House of Lords, including being Chairman of the Constitution Committee between 2014 and 2017.

Previously Lang served as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments from 2009 to 2014.

Since 1997, Lang has been a member of the board of directors of Marsh & McLennan Companies, becoming Chairman in May 2011. Lang has also been a Non-Executive Director of Charlemagne Capital Limited since 2006, and Deputy Chairman of European Telecom PLC since 1997.

On 30 January 2014 Lang stated that if Scotland voted for independence, it would dishonour the sacrifice of those who died fighting for Great Britain in the First World War.

Arms

Coat of arms of Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton
Coronet Coronet of a Baron Crest A Stock Dove holding in the beak an Olive Branch slipped and leaved, all proper. Escutcheon Tierced per fess Vert Azure and Vert, two Thistle Stalks slipped and leaved fesswise and conjoined at the bases Argent, at the centre point, between two Acorns slipped and leaved Or, in chief and a Three Masted Sailing Ship sails furled in base Or, and at the honour point a Fleur-de-lis Or. Motto SOIS VRAI (Be true)

References

"Constitution Committee – membership".
Link text, .
"Double Take". Footlights.org. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
"No. 54908". The London Gazette. 2 October 1997. p. 11115.
"Constitution Committee – membership".
"PM's watchdog dragged into politicians' jobs row". The Independent. 27 March 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
"Ian Bruce Lang DL, PC". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
Ben Riley-Smith (30 January 2014). "Scottish independence would dishonour Britain's war dead, Tory peer claims". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2014.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ian Lang
Lord Lang of Monkton

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byGeorge Thompson	Member of Parliament for Galloway 1979–1983	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 1983–1997	Succeeded byAlasdair Morgan
Political offices
Preceded byMalcolm Rifkind	Secretary of State for Scotland 1990–1995	Succeeded byMichael Forsyth
Preceded byMichael Heseltine	President of the Board of Trade 1995–1997	Succeeded byMargaret Beckett
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded byThe Lord Newby	Gentlemen Baron Lang of Monkton	Followed byThe Lord Blackwell

v t e Secretaries of state for Scotland
Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
Secretaries of State for Scotland 1707–1746	Mar Queensberry Mar Montrose Roxburghe Vacant Tweeddale
Secretaries for Scotland 1885–1926	Richmond Trevelyan Dalhousie Balfour Lothian Trevelyan Balfour of Burleigh Murray Linlithgow Sinclair (Pentland) Thomas McKinnon Wood Tennant Munro Novar Adamson Gilmour
Secretaries of State for Scotland (pre-devolution) 1926–1999	Gilmour Adamson Sinclair Collins Elliot Colville Brown Johnston Rosebery Westwood Woodburn McNeil Stuart Maclay Noble Ross Campbell Ross Millan Younger Rifkind Lang Forsyth Dewar
Secretaries of State for Scotland (post-devolution) 1999–present	Reid Liddell Darling* Alexander* Browne** Murphy Alexander Moore Carmichael Mundell Jack Murray
Also Secretary of State for Transport; *Secretary of State for Defence

v t e Energy secretaries of the United Kingdom
Ministers of Fuel, Light and Power	Gwilym Lloyd George Manny Shinwell Hugh Gaitskell Philip Noel-Baker
Minister of Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power	Frederik Leathers
Ministers of Fuel and Power	Geoffrey Lloyd Aubrey Jones
Ministers of Power	Percy Mills Richard Wood Frederick Erroll
Ministers of Technology	Frank Cousins Tony Benn
Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry	John Davies Peter Walker
Secretaries of State for Energy	Peter Lord Carrington Eric Varley Tony Benn David Howell Nigel Lawson Peter Walker Cecil Parkinson John Wakeham
Presidents of the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry	Michael Heseltine Ian Lang Margaret Beckett Peter Mandelson Stephen Byers Patricia Hewitt Alan Johnson Alistair Darling
Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform	John Hutton
Secretaries of State for Energy and Climate Change	Ed Miliband Chris Huhne Ed Davey Amber Rudd
Secretaries of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	Greg Clark Andrea Leadsom Alok Sharma Kwasi Kwarteng Jacob Rees-Mogg Grant Shapps Kemi Badenoch

v t e Presidents of the Board of Trade
Shaftesbury Bridgewater Stamford Weymouth Stamford Winchilsea Guilford Berkeley Suffolk Holderness FitzWalter Monson Halifax Sandys Townshend Shelburne Hillsborough Dartmouth Hillsborough Nugent Hillsborough Dartmouth Sackville Carlisle Grantham Sydney Liverpool Montrose Auckland Bathurst Clancarty Robinson Huskisson Grant Vesey-Fitzgerald Herries Auckland Thomson Baring Thomson Labouchere Ripon Gladstone Dalhousie Clarendon Labouchere Henley Cardwell Stanley Henley Donoughmore Gibson Northcote Richmond Bright Parkinson-Fortescue Adderley Sandon Chamberlain Richmond Stanhope Mundella Stanley Hicks Beach Mundella Bryce Ritchie Balfour Salisbury Lloyd George Churchill Buxton Burns Runciman Stanley Geddes Horne Baldwin Cunliffe-Lister Graham Cunliffe-Lister Runciman Stanley Duncan Lyttelton Duncan Llewellin Dalton Lyttelton Cripps Wilson Shawcross Thorneycroft Eccles Maulding Erroll Heath Jay Crosland Mason Noble Davies Walker Benn Varley Joseph Jenkin Shore Dell Smith Nott Biffen Cockfield Parkinson Tebbit Brittan Channon Young Ridley Lilley Heseltine Lang Beckett Mandelson Byers Hewitt Johnson Darling Hutton Mandelson Cable Javid Clark Fox Truss Trevelyan Badenoch Reynolds

v t e Major Cabinet
Cabinet Members	Jonathan Aitken Kenneth Baker Virginia Bottomley Peter Brooke Kenneth Clarke Viscount Cranborne Stephen Dorrell Michael Forsyth Roger Freeman John Gummer William Hague Jeremy Hanley Michael Heseltine Douglas Hogg Michael Howard David Hunt Douglas Hurd Tom King Norman Lamont Ian Lang Peter Lilley John MacGregor Lord Mackay John Major Brian Mawhinney Patrick Mayhew David Mellor Tony Newton Chris Patten John Patten Michael Portillo John Redwood Malcolm Rifkind Gillian Shephard Lord Waddington Lord Wakeham William Waldegrave George Young
Also attended meetings	Norman Fowler Alastair Goodlad Richard Ryder

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