Education
Magdalen College; Eton College.
Magdalen College; Eton College.
He served as a Minister of State in both the Foreign Office and the Home Office, and served as Margaret Thatcher"s Chief Whip (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) between 1989 and 1990. After Thatcher"s resignation in 1990 he was promoted to the Cabinet serving in John Major"s government as Minister for the Arts between 1990 and 1992. After standing down from the Commons he was created a life peer on 9 June 1997 as Baron Renton of Mount Harry, of Offham in the County of East Sussex, and took his seat in the House of Lords.
Their four surviving children are Alexander James Torre (a journalist on The Times), Christian Louise, Daniel Charles Antony and (Katherine) Chelsea.
Polly (Penelope Sally Rosita), the couple"s youngest daughter, a documentary film maker, died in a car accident in 2010. He lives in Offham near Lewes in East Sussex and has a holiday home on the Hebridean island of Tiree.
46th United Kingdom Parliament. 47th United Kingdom Parliament. 48th United Kingdom Parliament.
49th United Kingdom Parliament.
50th United Kingdom Parliament. 51st United Kingdom Parliament]
After unsuccessfully contesting Sheffield Park in 1970, he was Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid-Sussex from 1974 to 1997.