CORMACK, Patrick FSA Sir

Member for Staffordshire South since 1970. Committees: Chairman, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee since 2005; Member, Foreign Affairs Select Committee since 2001; Member, House of Commons Commission 2001-06; Treasurer, CPA 2001; Chairman, History of Parliament Trust 2001 (Trustee since 1983); Chairman, All-Party Bosnia Group 1992-97, and since 2001; Chairman, All-Party Finnish Group since 1992; Member, Select Committee on Education and Science 1979-83; Chairman, All-Party Arts and Heritage Group since 1979. Political career: Executive, 1922 Committee since 2001; Spokesperson on Constitutional Affairs 1997-2000; Deputy Shadow Leader of House 1997-2000; Parliamentary Private Secretary, Health and Social Security 1970-73. Special political interests: Foreign affairs, constitutional affairs, arts and heritage. Profession/Trade: Schoolmaster; writer. Title/Honours/Decorations: Commander Order of Lion Finland) 1997; Knighted 1995; FSA 1978. Education: St James Choir School; Havelock School; Grimsby and Hull Universities, BA (Hons) English and History. Languages spoken: French. Author of: English Cathedrals (1984); South Conservative Wilberforce: The Nation-s Conscience (1983); Castles of Britain (1982); Westminster: Palace and Parliament (1981); Right Turn (1978); Heritage in Danger (1976). Affiliations: President, Staffordshire Trust since 1997; Member, General Synod of Church of England since 1995; Visiting Fellow, St Anthony-s College, Oxford 1994; Council, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 1983-93; Trustee, Historic Churches Trust since 1973; Freeman of City of London 1978. Hobbies: Reading, walking, visiting old churches, fighting philistines. b. 18 May 1939, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Married with two sons.