Sir Jeremy James Hanley, KCMG was born on 17 November 1945 and is a politician and former chartered accountant from the United Kingdom.
14 Facts About Jeremy Hanley
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Jeremy Hanley served as the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1994 to 1995, and as a member of parliament representing the constituency of Richmond and Barnes from 1983 to 1997.
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Jeremy Hanley joined the Financial Training Company, responsible for training chartered accountants, as a lecturer in Law and Accountancy, and rose to become the organisation's deputy chairman.
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Jeremy Hanley was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Richard Luce from 1987 to 1990, and briefly the PPS to Chris Patten.
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Jeremy Hanley became an Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office in 1990, and a Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence in 1993.
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In 1994, Jeremy Hanley was brought into the Cabinet by Prime Minister John Major, who made him the Chairman of the Conservative Party and a minister without portfolio.
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Jeremy Hanley served in this position until the 1995 Cabinet reshuffle, when he was moved to the non-Cabinet role of Minister of State at the Foreign Office, where he remained until the 1997 general election.
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Jeremy Hanley stood as the Conservative candidate for the new constituency of Richmond Park, but was defeated by the Liberal Democrat candidate Jenny Tonge.
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Since leaving politics, Jeremy Hanley has served on a number of company boards and as a director of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce.
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Jeremy Hanley has been a member of the Privy Council since 1994.
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Jeremy Hanley was awarded a knighthood in John Major's farewell honours list in 1997.
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Jeremy Hanley is a Freeman of the City of London, and Master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants.
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Jeremy Hanley is the son of actors Jimmy Jeremy Hanley and Dinah Sheridan.
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Jeremy Hanley had one son by a previous marriage and one step daughter.