The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC

Foretitle(s): Baron (Life Peer UK 1997), of Westwell in the County of Oxfordshire;
Surname: HURD OF WESTWELL
Style: The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC

Career: Dip Serv 1952-66 (Peking, UK Mission to UN, Rome, also private sec to perm under sec FO); CRD 1966-68 (head Foreign Affrs Section 1968); MP (Cons): Mid Oxon Feb 1974-1983, Witney 1983-97; private sec to Rt Hon Edward Heath as ldr of Oppn 1968-70, political sec to PM 1970-74, oppn spokesman on foreign affrs (with special responsibility for EEC) 1976-79; min of state: FCO 1979-83, Home Office 1983-84; sec of state for NI 1984-85, home sec 1985-89, sec of state for foreign and Cwlth affrs 1989-95; dir National Westminster Bank plc 1995-99, dep chm NatWest Markets 1995-98, chm British Invisibles 1997-2000 (dep chm 1996-97), dep chm Coutts & Co 1998-2010; chm: Prison Reform Tst 1997-2001 (hon pres 2001-), CEDR 2000-04 (currently chm Advsy Cncl), Canterbury Review Gp 2000; memb: Royal Cmmn on reform of House of Lords 1999, Appointments Cmmn 2000-10; visiting fell Nuffield Coll Oxford 1978, fell Eton Coll 1981-96; chm of judges Booker Prize 1998; high steward Westminster Abbey 2000-10; chm German-Br Forum 2000-05; co-pres RIIA 2001-09

Books and Publications: The Arrow War (1967), Truth Game (1972), Vote to Kill (1975), An End to Promises (1979); with Andrew Osmond: Send Him Victorious (1968), The Smile on The Face of the Tiger (1969), Scotch on the Rocks (1971), War Without Frontiers (1982); Palace of Enchantments (with Stephen Lamport, qv, 1985), Search for Peace (1997), Shape of Ice (1998), Ten Minutes to Turn the Devil (1999), Image in the Water (2001), Memoirs (2003), Sir Robert Peel (2007), Choose Your Weapons (with Edward Young, 2010)