Education
Wade was educated at Birkenhead School and the Queen"s University of Belfast.
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William Oulton Wade
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Career
Having been awarded a Knighthood in the 1982 Birthday Honours, which was conferred by The Queen on 14 December 1982, Wade was elevated to the House of Lords being created a life peer on 16 May 1990 with the title Baron Wade of Chorlton, of Chester in the County of Cheshire. On 9 November 2007, he became an Honorary Graduand of the University of Chester where he was presented for admission to the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa. He is a past Chair of the English Cheese Export Council 1982-1984, and is President of the Combined Heat and Power Association.
He became a Freeman of the City of London in 1980.
Membership
He was an elected member of Cheshire County Council between 1973-1977, and then Joint Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1982-1990. In the Lords, he has served as a Member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, and later as Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Report ‘Chips for Everything’.
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