David James Christian Faber was a Conservative member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then an author, before in 2010 being appointed as head master of Summer Fields School, Oxford.
Background
He is the grandson of the late former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (1894–1986). The son of Julian and Lady Caroline Faber, Faber comes from a aristocratic political family drawn from the Whig and latterly the Conservative traditions. His grandmother, Lady Dorothy Cavendish, was descended from three Prime Ministers, the 4th Duke of Devonshire (1756–1757), the 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1782-1783) and the 3rd Duke of Portland (1783 and 1807–1809), related by marriage to President John F. Kennedy.
Education
Faber was educated at Summer Fields School, Summertown, then at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.
Career
Faber"s great-great-great-granduncle was Lord Hartington and his great-grandfather Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire was also statesman. Faber first stood for Parliament, unsuccessfully, in 1987 at Stockton North, where he was defeated by Labour"s Frank Cook. He was parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1994 to 1996, and then to the Secretary of State for Health, from 1996 to 1997.
In opposition, after the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election, he was their front bench spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth affairs, until 1998.
In 1997, he was reported to be a director of Sterling Marketing, and in 1998 was a director of Freestream Aircraft. Faber stood down from parliament at the 2001 general election, to be succeeded by fellow Conservative Andrew Murrison, when he began a new career as a writer
In 2009, he was appointed as head of his old prep school, Summer Fields, with effect from September 2010. Faber married firstly Sally Gilbert, a television weather girl, and they had one son together, Henry, but later divorced, with Faber citing James Hewitt as co-respondent.
Membership
51st United Kingdom Parliament. 52nd United Kingdom Parliament]
He worked in marketing and as a political assistant to Jeffrey Archer before entering the House of Commons in 1992 as Conservative Member of Parliament for Westbury. He served as a member of several Parliamentary Select Committees: Social Security, 1992–1997, Culture, Media and Sport, 1998 to 2001, and the Public Accounts Committee, 2000–2001.
He is a past committee member of the Master Control Console, the governing body of the game of cricket, and a member of White"son