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Tim Barnes, Former TRG Chairman and Executive Director of UCL Advances
Tim Barnes was invited to be one of the patrons of the Society in September 2009.
Tim became Chairman of the Tory Reform Group in January 2006 with the aim of extending the role of the TRG away from Westminster through new groups across the country, greater use of media and wider participation from the membership. Previously he had been a member of the TRG board for four years. In 2001, and again in 2005, he was a senior member of the campaign team behind Ken Clarke MP’s bid for the Conservative Party leadership. He is active within his local constituency association (Holborn and St. Pancras), where he is Treasurer and a ward Chairman.
At present Tim is the Executive Director of UCL Advances, which he joined in August 2007 moving from the for-profit sector where he spent the six previous years running his own business, which helped universities and large corporations to spin-out high technology companies. His client list includes UCL, Birkbeck College, University of Surrey, the London Development Agency, the Centre for Scientific Enterprise Limited (CSEL), the BBC and Reuters.
It is also worth noting that Tim is a graduate of UCL, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Association of European Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP), Vice-President of the Friends’ of UCL Trust and a member of the International Advisory Boards for Flywheel Ventures, an early-stage US venture capital company , and Venture Cup Denmark, a national programme that seeks to unearth Danish university entrepreneurs .
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Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS
Margaret Thatcher was made a Life Patron of the Society in the early 80’s.
Thatcher was the longest-serving British Prime Minister. She is also the only woman to have served as Prime Minister, one of only two women to have led a major political party in the UK, and one of only two to have held any of the four great offices of state.In 1992, Margaret Thatcher was raised to the House of Lords by the conferment of a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire.
On 21 February 2007 as a statue of her was unveiled in the UK Parliament, Lady Thatcher made a rare and brief speech in the members’ lobby of the House of Commons. She said: “I might have preferred iron – but bronze will do… It won’t rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.”
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John Whittingdale MP OBE
John was President of the UCL Conservative Society in 1982 in the final year of his Economics BSc. He worked in the central research team for the Conservative Party before becoming a researcher for Margaret Thatcher.
In 1992 John entered parliament as MP for Colchester South and Maldon before the seat changed to its current status of Maldon and East Chelmsford.
During his career John has been Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport as well as Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. John has always been a key supporter for the society and was guest of honour at the Annual Dinner in 2006.
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Life President
Hon. Nicholas Soames MP
Nicholas Soames Member of the Executive of the 1922 Committee & MP for Mid Sussex was created Life President of UCL Conservative Society in February 2005. Nicjolas has kindly supported our society with frequent appearances at our Tuesday Night Wine Receptions and has welcomed members of the society to Mid Sussex to assist with campaigning.
Nicholas, who is the son of the late Lord Soames and grandson of wartime Premier Sir Winston Churchill, has been a Member of Parliament since 1983 and served as Minister for the Armed Forces from 1994-7.
From 2003 to May 2005 he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence and as a member of the Shadow Cabinet.
Find out more about Nicholas Soames http://www.midsussexconservatives.com/