Irwin Bellow, Baron Bellwin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Irwin Bellow, Baron Bellwin

British politician

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1923

Place of Birth: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Feb-2001

Profession: politician, justice of the peace

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Irwin Bellow, Baron Bellwin

  • Irwin Norman Bellow, Baron Bellwin, JP, DL (7 February 1923 – 11 February 2001) was a British Conservative politician. Bellow was born to a Jewish family in Leeds, and was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University, where he read Law.
  • He then joined the family's sewing-machine firm.
  • Bellow served as the Leader of the Leeds City Council from 1975 to 1979.
  • As council leader, he sold 3,000 council houses and cut rates, which brought him to the attention of Margaret Thatcher.On 21 May 1979, he was created a life peer as Baron Bellwin, of the City of Leeds.
  • Between 1979 and 1983, Bellwin served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment under Michael Heseltine.
  • Between 1983 and 1984 he was Minister of State for the Environment (Local Government).
  • As a junior minister, Bellwin piloted 28 bills through the House of Lords, including the Thatcher government's 'Right to Buy' legislation and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
  • He spoke more than 1,000 times in the Lords during the passage of Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.
  • The Bellwin scheme, which he introduced in 1983, is named after him.
  • He resigned from the government in 1984, allegedly because of his opposition to Margaret Thatcher's plans to abolish the Labour-dominated metropolitan county councils.Bellwin was made a Justice of the Peace for Leeds in 1969 and became a Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire in 1991.
  • He was Master of the Worshipful Company of World Traders from 1988 to 1989. He married Doreen Saperia in 1948; they had one son and two daughters.

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