Education
Eton College; Trinity College.
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Jack Kingsbridge
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Career
Before his appointment as Arts Minister, Lord Donaldson served for several years as a Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont. Donaldson was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1939 and served throughout the Second World War, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel and being appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1943. He was created a life peer as Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, of Kingsbridge in the County of Buckinghamshire on 20 November 1967.
From 1968 to 1971 he was Chairman of the National Consumer Council.
The United Kingdom"s National Portrait Gallery holds the following portrait featuring Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge as a sitter: Exhibit number P528: John George Stuart Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge and Frances Annesley (née Lonsdale), Lady Donaldson of Kingsbridge by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda. Painted in 1992; medium: colour print.
Measurements: 14 7/8 in. x 12 in. (379 mm x 305 mm). See for more information.
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Politics
He left the Labour Party for the Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party) in 1981, and remained with the Liberal Democrats after the Social Democratic Party merger with the Liberals.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Liberal Democrats