9 May 2002
The Prime Minister has appointed The Right Honourable Lord Waldegrave of North Hill as the new Chairman of the National Museum of Science and Industry. Lord Waldegrave will succeed Sir Peter Williams, who steps down at the end of June. Lord Waldegrave’s appointment will be for a term of four years from 1 July 2002.
Biographical Notes
Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (William Waldegrave) has worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where he is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division, since 1998. He is also a non-executive Director of Bank of Ireland UK Holdings plc, Finsbury Life Sciences Investment Trust plc, Henry Sotheran Ltd, and Waldegrave Farms Ltd.
He is Chairman elect of the Rhodes Trust, Chairman of the Bristol Cathedral Trust, a Trustee of the Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research and a Council Member of the Institute of Comtemporary British History, University of London. He is Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Between 1979 and 1997 he was Conservative MP for Bristol West, serving as a Minister between 1981 and 1997. At Cabinet level, he was Secretary of State for Health, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (with responsibility for Public Service and Science), Minister of Agriculture, and Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Previously, he had been a Minister of State at the Department of the Environment and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Before election to Parliament he had served in the Cabinet Office (Central Policy Review Staff), as Political Secretary to Edward Heath as Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, and had worked at GEC Ltd. He is the author of The Binding of Leviathan, Conservatism and the Future, Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
Lord Waldegrave was appointed to the House of Lords in 1999 and became President of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee in 2000.
Notes for editors
The National Museum of Science & Industry incorporates the Science Museum in London, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, the National Railway Museum in York and the Wroughton outstation in Wiltshire. The Museum’s aim is to promote the public understanding of the history and contemporary practice of science, medicine, technology and industry. Trustees are not remunerated.
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