1. Timothy Eric Boswell, Baron Boswell of Aynho was born on 2 December 1942 and is a British politician who was the Conservative MP for Daventry from 1987 until he stood down at the 2010 general election, after which he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer.
The son of a farmer, Tim Boswell was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Classics and a diploma in agricultural economics.
Tim Boswell joined the Conservative Research Department in 1966, becoming head of the economics section in 1974.
Tim Boswell stood for Parliament at the February 1974 general election in Rugby but lost by 6,154 votes to Labour's William Price.
Tim Boswell was elected as the Treasurer of the Daventry Conservative Association in 1976 and subsequently its Chairman from 1979 to 1983.
Tim Boswell became a political advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Michael Jopling for two years from 1984.
Tim Boswell was chosen to contest the Daventry constituency after the sitting Conservative MP Reg Prentice announced his retirement.
Tim Boswell was elected as the Conservative MP for Daventry at the 1987 general election with a majority of 19,690 and held the safe seat comfortably until his retirement from the House of Commons.
Tim Boswell became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury Peter Lilley in 1989.
Tim Boswell entered John Major's government in 1990 as an Assistant Government Whip, following the 1992 general election he was promoted within the Whip's Office and became a Lord Commissioner to the Treasury.
In December 1992, Tim Boswell was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Education and moved in the same position at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food until the Major government fell at the 1997 general election.
In opposition Tim Boswell was a spokesman on the Treasury in the immediate aftermath of the 1997 election defeat and became a spokesman on Trade and Industry under William Hague, before speaking on Education and Employment in 1999 until after the 2001 general election.
Tim Boswell became the spokesman for Work and Pensions under the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith, moving briefly to speak on Constitutional Affairs in 2003 under Michael Howard and back to Work and Pensions in 2004, where he remained following the 2005 general election.
On 31 March 2006, Tim Boswell announced his intention not to contest the subsequent general election, provided it did not take place unexpectedly soon.
Tim Boswell was raised to the House of Lords as a Conservative Life peer being created Baron Boswell of Aynho, of Aynho in the County of Northamptonshire on 8 July 2010.
On 10 March 2016, Tim Boswell was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Tim Boswell was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire in 2010.