Tim Boswell Net Worth 2024, Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Introduction

Tim Boswell is a British politician who was formerly the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry from 1987 until he stood down at the 2010 general election, after which he was raised to the House of Lords as a Conservative life peer.

Early life

Name	Tim Boswell
Net Worth	$4 million
Occupation	Former politician
Age	81 years
Height	1.75m

Tim Boswell net worth

Timothy Eric Boswell, Baron Boswell of Aynho DL was born on December 2, 1942 (age 81 years) in Brentwood, Essex, England. He is the son of a farmer, Tim Boswell was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Classics and a diploma in agricultural economics.

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Political career

Tim Boswell joined the Conservative Research Department in 1966, becoming head of the economics section in 1974. He stood for Parliament at the February 1974 general election in Rugby but lost by 6,154 votes to Labour’s William Price.

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Boswell was elected as the Treasurer of the Daventry Conservative Association in 1976 and subsequently its Chairman from 1979 to 1983. He became a political advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Michael Jopling for two years from 1984.

He was chosen to contest the Daventry constituency after the sitting Conservative MP Reg Prentice announced his retirement. He was elected as the Conservative MP for Daventry at the 1987 general election with a majority of 19,690 and held the safe seat comfortably until his retirement from the House of Commons.

Tim Boswell’s Westminster career began unsurprisingly as a Member of the Agriculture Select committee in 1987. He became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury Peter Lilley in 1989. Tim Boswell entered John Major’s government in 1990 as an Assistant Government Whip, following the 1992 general election he was promoted within the Whip’s Office and became a Lord Commissioner to the Treasury.

In December 1992, Tim Boswell was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Education and moved in the same position at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food until the Major government fell at the 1997 general election.

In opposition, Boswell was a spokesman on the Treasury in the immediate aftermath of the 1997 election defeat and became a spokesman on Trade and Industry under William Hague, before speaking on Education and Employment in 1999 until after the 2001 general election.

Tim Boswell became the spokesman for Work and Pensions under the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith, moving briefly to speak on Constitutional Affairs in 2003 under Michael Howard and back to Work and Pensions in 2004, where he remained following the 2005 general election.

On 31 March 2006, Boswell announced his intention not to contest the subsequent general election, provided it did not take place unexpectedly soon. The Daventry seat was split in two at the 2010 general election, with the northern portion becoming part of a new Daventry constituency and the southern part becoming part of a South Northamptonshire constituency.

In May 2009, he was listed by The Telegraph as one of the “Saints” in the expenses scandal. After his retirement from the House of Commons the seat remained Conservative under Chris Heaton-Harris.

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Tim Boswell was raised to the House of Lords as a Conservative Life peer being created Baron Boswell of Aynho, of Aynho in the County of Northamptonshire on 8 July 2010. In May 2012, he resigned the Conservative whip after being made Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House. He also became Chairman of the European Union Committee.

Wife

Tim Boswell was married to his wife Helen Delahay Rees Boswell, they had their wedding in England. He married his wife for 50 years until her death in 2019. The couple had three daughters together including the Conservative Member of Parliament Victoria Prentis. On 10 March 2016, Boswell was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire in 2010. As of 2022, Tim Boswell is single.