Honorary Life President of Guildford Conservatives

Lord Howell is President of Guildford Conservative Association and a former MP for Guildford. He represented Guildford in the House of Commons from 1966 to 1997. He was made a life peer in 1997 and is Shadow Minister for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs in the House of Lords and is also Shadow Deputy Leader of the Lords.

Lord Howell is the former Secretary of State for Energy, and later for Transport in Mrs Margaret Thatcher's first Cabinet (1979-83). He was Minister of State in Northern Ireland (1972-74) and has held several other Government posts. He was Chairman of the International Energy Agency Ministerial meeting in May 1979.

From 1987-97, he was Chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and is currently the Shadow Spokesperson in the House of Lords on Foreign Affairs. He is also adviser to the Conservative Opposition leadership on European Reform.

In earlier years he worked closely with both Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher and is credited by several authorities with having invented the idea of privatisation in the late nineteen-sixties. In 2001, he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Emperor of Japan (Japan's highest honour for foreigners) for his work in furthering UK-Japan relations.

He is the author of several books, including the best selling The Edge of Now, published in 2000 and is writes columns for The Japan Times, the International Herald Tribune and the Wall Street Journal.

Lord Howell was born in 1936 and educated at Eton. From 1954 to 1956 he was in the Armed Forces in the 2nd Btn Coldstream Guards. He went to King's College, Cambridge and studied Economics - graduating in 1959. His first job was in HM Treasury from 1959-60, then he was a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph from 1960-64. He is married with two daughters and one son.

Chairman of Guildford Conservatives

Jonathan lives in Blackheath and, in addition to leading the Guildford Conservative Association as Chairman, he is also chairs the Wonersh and Blackheath Branch. His key aims for this year are to increase  membership, to raise the income of the Association through successful events, and to prepare all the groundwork for a successful general election election campaign.
 
Prior to living in Bramley then Blackheath, Jonathan was based in central London, where he was a Councillor for the Ward of Little Venice and Deputy Leader of Westminster Council. Born in Oldham, he also stood as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Oldham West and Royton in 1997.
 
Jonathan has over twenty years' of business experience in advertising, marketing communications and technology. As a Director of Saatchi & Saatchi, he ran campaigns for Hewlett-Packard across Europe and the Middle East. He is currently a Director of LastMile Communications Ltd.
 
Educated at Shrewsbury then Oxford, Jonathan is married to Caroline and they have a son and a daughter.

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Deputy Chairman (Political) of Guildford Conservatives

Christine is married and has lived in Stoughton for nearly 40 years. Following a successful career in communications including service and personnel management, including as Branch Secretary for some years in a moderate trade union, she took early retirement.

She is heavily involved in the voluntary sector working with the frail and housebound and was also a Governor at Northmead School in Stoughton for 8 years, including for 2 years the Chairman of Governors.

Christine has a keen interest in the health service and thoroughly enjoys helping a local branch of a pensioners' organisation. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, gardening, good health and chocolate in moderation! She recently stood Conservative Candidate in the Guildford North division  (Stoughton & Stoke) at the County Council elections in May 2005.

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Deputy Chairman (Membership and Fundraising) of Guildford Conservatives

Jill is married with four children and has lived in the Guildford constituency for nearly ten years.  She has been actively involved with the Conservative Party for most of her adult life and has campaigned in Streatham, the old constituency of S.W.Leicester, Brentford and Isleworth, when she also stood as a candidate for the local council and now Guildford.

She has been involved in fundraising for many years mostly for Arthritis charities and most recently CHASE, the Childrens' Hospice based in Guildford which has now built 'Christopher's' at Artington where she also works as a volunteer.  Jills also sits on Compton Parish Council where she is responsible for planning matters.

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