13 Facts About Timothy Raison

Sir Timothy Hugh Francis Raison was a British Conservative politician and journalist.

Timothy Raison was the MP for Aylesbury from 1970 to 1992, and served in the government of Margaret Thatcher.

Timothy Raison was the son of publisher and editor Maxwell Raison, general manager of Picture Post, and his wife Celia, Raison was educated, through being a scholarship boy, at two independent schools: at Dragon School in Oxford, where he became Head of School.

Timothy Raison performed his national service with the Durham Light Infantry, where he was a second lieutenant.

Timothy Raison began his career as a journalist, first working on Picture Post, then New Scientist.

Timothy Raison floated the idea past me and I thought it was terrific.

In 1960 Timothy Raison received The Nansen Refugee Award, which is given annually by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in recognition of outstanding service to the cause of refugees.

Timothy Raison co-founded and edited the social science magazine New Society from 1962 until 1968 and was MP for Aylesbury from 1970 until his retirement in 1992.

Timothy Raison served as a junior Education and Science Minister.

Timothy Raison served as a Home Office minister from 1979 to 1983, under then Home Secretary William Whitelaw,.

Timothy Raison then served as Minister for Overseas Development.

In 1956, Timothy Raison married violin teacher Veldes Julia Charrington, daughter of John Arthur Pepys Charrington, of Netherton, Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire, president of the Charrington Brewery and Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers in 1952, of that landed gentry family of Cherry Orchard, Shaftesbury, Dorset; they had a son, Paul Timothy Raison, and three daughters.

On 3 November 2011, Timothy Raison died on his 82nd birthday from complications of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.