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Edward Thomas Kellett-Bowman JP (born Edward Thomas Bowman, 25 February 1931) is a British business and management consultant. A Justice of the Peace ( JP) is a Puisne Judicial officer appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He has also had a political career as a local councillor and as a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party. A Member of the European Parliament ( English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Union 's legislative body the European Parliament. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. His political career was slightly overshadowed by his more prominent wife, Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman, but his work in the European Parliament was effective in shaping policy and he only narrowly missed being chosen to lead the Conservative group. Dame Mary Elaine Kellett-Bowman DBE (born 8 July 1924) is a British Conservative politician The European Parliament ( Europarl or EP) is the only directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU

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Early career

Bowman went to Reed's School in Cobham, Surrey and Slough College of Technology. Reed's School is an independent day and boarding school for boys located in Cobham Surrey, England. Cobham is a town in Surrey, England, about south-west of London; and north of Leatherhead. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. He had technical and management training in textiles from 1951 to 1953, and then worked in management of the textile industry for two years. [1] He then joined a company of pharmaceutical manufacturing chemists, working as a manager. [2]

London municipal politics

He was already active in the Conservative Party as chairman of the Young Conservative Council of London and an executive member of the London Conservative Union. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. In 1957 Bowman was elected to Holborn Borough Council, but having moved by the time of the next election, in 1959 he was elected to St Pancras Borough Council. The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965 when it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough The Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1900 and 1965 when it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan He was the Conservative candidate in Pontefract at the 1959 general election. Pontefract was an English parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which returned two Members Background Following the Suez Crisis in 1956 Anthony Eden the Conservative Prime Minister became unpopular and resigned the following year [2]

London County Council

In 1960 Bowman married Patricia Blakemore, who was one of the most vigorous election agents in the Conservative Party in London. She had already proved her skill as agent for Holborn and St Pancras South in 1959 and gained a marginal seat. Holborn and St Pancras South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holborn district of Central London. When in 1961 Edward Bowman was selected as candidate for the same division in the London County Council election, his wife was again agent. London County Council (LCC was the principal local government body for the County of London, throughout its 1889-1965 existence and the first London-wide general municipal Winning the seat for her husband was said to be the happiest moment of her life. [3]

After reorganisation of local government in London, Bowman was defeated in elections to Camden Borough Council in 1964, but was chosen by the elected councillors as an Alderman. The London Borough of Camden ( is a borough of London, England, which forms part of Inner London. An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions His wife was elected to Barnet Borough Council in 1968, but soon fell ill and died in February 1970. The London Borough of Barnet ( is a London borough in North London and forms part of Outer London. [3] When Bowman married fellow Camden councillor and Member of Parliament for Lancaster Elaine Kellett (who like him had been widowed) in 1971, the couple joined their names and adopted the surname 'Kellett-Bowman'. Lancaster was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and Dame Mary Elaine Kellett-Bowman DBE (born 8 July 1924) is a British Conservative politician [1]

Business consultancy

Kellett-Bowman gave up his job to study for a Master of Business Administration degree at Cranfield Institute of Technology in 1972, and in 1974 became a business and management consultant in private practice. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines Cranfield University is a British postgraduate University based on two Campuses with a research-oriented focus He became a Freeman of the City of London in 1978 and a Liveryman of the Wheelwrights Company in 1979. Freedom of the City is an honour bestowed by some municipalities in Australia, Canada, Ireland, France, Italy, New Zealand For London as a whole see the main article London. The City of London is a geographically In Livery Companies within the City of London, a liveryman is a full member of the Company The Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. Inspiring Leaders The Chartered Management Institute is a professional institution for managers, based in the United Kingdom. [1]

European Parliament

At the 1979 elections to the European Parliament, Kellett-Bowman was chosen as the Conservative Party candidate for the Lancashire East constituency, which stretched from Blackburn to Nelson, including Clitheroe and Heywood. England Scotland and Wales Source UK Office of the European Parliament Note percentages are approximate Northern Ireland Blackburn ( is a large town in Lancashire, England. It lies to the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley Nelson is a town in the borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England with a population of 28998 in 2001 Clitheroe is a town and Civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. Heywood is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England He won the seat with a majority of over 14,000, although only three out of the eight Parliamentary constituencies making up the seat were Conservative. At the same election, his wife was elected in the neighbouring constituency of Cumbria and Lancashire North.

Audit work

Kellett-Bowman specialised in budget and audit and in 1981 presented a report about budgetary control at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra near Milan. The Joint Research Centre (JRC located in Brussels, Belgium, is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. Ispra is a small town on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore, in the Province of Varese ( Lombardy, northern Italy) Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. The report found its funds were managed in way that concealed their details, and an administrative building had been built without permission. [4] In February 1982, Kellett-Bowman criticised the sale of farm surpluses to the Soviet bloc, and accused the European Commission of distorting the foreign policy of the free world. [5]

Federalism

At the 1984 European Parliament election, Kellett-Bowman lost his seat. England Scotland and Wales Source UK Office of the European Parliament Note percentages are approximate Constituency Results He returned to the European Parliament in a byelection in December 1988 in the Hampshire Central constituency. In July 1990 he supported a motion calling for a new constitution for Europe which would give the European Communities a federal structure. The motion also called for economic and monetary union, including a single currency, although others who had voted for the motion said that the translation was inaccurate. [6] Four years later, Kellett-Bowman pointed out that in unambiguous votes on a federal Europe in March 1990 and February 1994 he had voted against. [7]

Transit crime

As a senior MEP, Kellett-Bowman served on the governing body of the European People's Party in the late 1990s. The European People's Party (EPP is a Christian democratic and Liberal conservative European political party. [8] He brought in a report to the European Parliament in February 1997 which identified the removal of border controls and a lack of co-operation by member states as being responsible for the rise in organised crime and smuggling. [9] Kellett-Bowman's report led to the European Union setting up a customs investigation body and computerising transit-monitoring systems. [10]

Conservative leadership

In September 1997, Kellett-Bowman stood for the leadership of the Conservative group of MEPs, and lost by one vote to Edward McMillan-Scott. Edward H C McMillan-Scott (born August 15, 1949, Cambridge) is a British politician Member of the European Parliament for the [11] He made an attack on mergers of accountancy firms in early 1998, urging the Commission to place a lower limit on the number of large firms so that there would never be fewer than five. [12]

Later career

At the 1999 election, Kellett-Bowman was placed seventh on the Conservative Party list in South East England, the lowest of all the sitting MEPs, making it very difficult for him to be elected. England Scotland and Wales Source: UK Office of the European Parliament Note Percentages are approximate Northern Ireland South East England is a Constituency of the European Parliament. In the results the Conservatives won only five seats and thereafter Kellett-Bowman returned to management consultancy.

In February 2006 Kellett-Bowman made a formal complaint to the European Parliament authorities accusing Chris Huhne, then a candidate for the Liberal Democrat leadership, of misusing Parliamentary funds to support his election campaign in Eastleigh during the 2005 general election. Christopher Murray Paul Huhne, known as Chris Huhne, (born 2 July 1954 is a British Liberal Democrat politician and the current Member of Parliament In the 2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Sir Menzies Campbell was elected to succeed Charles Kennedy as Leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third-largest Eastleigh is a Borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Results Overview For events leading up to the date of the election see article Pre-election day events of the United Kingdom general Kellett-Bowman denounced Huhne for "fraudulent use of public funds", pointing to the fact that Eastleigh was a marginal constituency. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures goals or loyalty [13] The European Parliament took no regulatory action.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Who's Who 2008" (A & C Black).
  2. ^ a b "The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1959", p. 87.
  3. ^ a b "Mrs Edward Bowman" (obituary), The Times, 24 February 1970, p. 10.
  4. ^ "Commission criticized over misuse of funds", The Times, 19 June 1981, p. 4.
  5. ^ "Soviet sales put top EEC jobs at risk", The Times, 19 February 1982, p. 8.
  6. ^ Andrew Grice, "F-word haunts 16 Euro-Tories", Sunday Times, 29 May 1994.
  7. ^ "Against the F-word" (letter), Sunday Times, 12 June 1994.
  8. ^ Stephen Bates, "Tories' allies press on with federal goals", The Guardian, 30 August 1995, p. 12.
  9. ^ Neil Buckley, "Cross-border crime loses EU billions: Inquiry blames Brussels and customs for failing to clamp down on smuggling", Financial Times, 21 February 1997, p. 2.
  10. ^ Neil Buckley, "EU plans single body against smuggling", Financial Times, 13 March 1997, p. 2.
  11. ^ "MEPs choose new leader", The Times, 17 September 1997, p. 8.
  12. ^ Robert Bruce, "Numbers game", The Times, 22 January 1998, p. 27.
  13. ^ Rosemary Bennett, ". . as claims are made of fraud", The Times, 18 February 2006, p. 39.
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