Background
He became a barrister, like his father, from 1962 at the Inner Temple, practising until 1989. His family home was in Cardiff, as his father Sir Owen Temple-Morris was Member of Parliament for Cardiff E.
He became a barrister, like his father, from 1962 at the Inner Temple, practising until 1989. His family home was in Cardiff, as his father Sir Owen Temple-Morris was Member of Parliament for Cardiff E.
Born in Cardiff, Temple-Morris attended Llandaff Cathedral School and Hillstone School (Malvern College"s preparatory school) in Malvern, then Malvern College.
He now sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. He went to Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge gaining a Bachelor in Law in 1958. Temple-Morris was selected as the Conservative candidate for Newport (Monmouthshire) in 1964 and 1966 and Norwood in 1970.
In February 1974, he was elected for Leominster, having been selected for the seat in March 1973.
That same year, he was appointed vice-chairman, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (United Kingdom Branch). In 1979, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport, Norman Fowler, Executive Member, Inter-Parliamentary Union (British Group) and Founding Company-Chairman, British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body.
He stayed an Member of Parliament until 2001, although he defected from Conservative to Labour on 20 June 1998. Temple-Morris was a strong supporter of Michael Heseltine.
Suspension
Temple-Morris was suspended from the party in 1997 because he had "repeatedly and publicly questioned his continued commitment to the Conservative Party".
He then resigned from the party. Defection
From 1997 to 1998, Temple-Morris sat on the government Labour benches, but did not take the whip, instead sitting as a one-man "Independent One-Nation Conservative" group. However in 1998 he joined the Labour party but stood down as an Member of Parliament in the 2001 general election.
House of Lords
Temple-Morris was made a life peer on 22 June 2001 as Baron Temple-Morris, of Llandaff in the County of South Glamorgan and of Leominster in the County of Herefordshire.
He sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. Outside politics, Temple-Morris was appointed Chairman of the Macleod Group, an association of left-of-centre Conservative MPs, in 1979.
Since 1995, he has been President of the British-Iranian Business Association Society. Temple-Morris contributed to the book What next for Labour? Ideas for a new generation in September 2011, his piece was entitled Labour: Progressive Politics.
Joining Labour in June 1998.
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He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Leominster in 1974. He was a member of the Select Committees on Agriculture (1982-1983) and on Foreign Affairs (1987-1990).