Richard Newby, Baron Newby
Richard Mark Newby, Baron Newby, OBE (born 14 February 1953), is a British politician.
The son of Frank and Kathleen Newby was educated at the Rothwell Grammar School and St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1974 and was later awarded a Master of Arts degree.
Newby was Private Secretary to Permanent Secretary from 1977 to 1979.[clarification needed] He was Secretary of the Social Democratic Party Parliamentary Committee in 1981 and National Secretary of the SDP from 1983 to 1988. From 1999 to 2006, Newby was Chief of Staff to Charles Kennedy. He is currently Liberal Democrat Spokesman for the Treasury, Chairman of Live Consulting, and Chair of Sport at The Prince's Trust.
He was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1990 and was created a life peer with the title Baron Newby, of Rothwell in the County of West Yorkshire on 25 September 1997.
Lord Newby has been married since 1978 to the Rev. Ailsa Ballantyne Newby (née Thomson, now the Team Rector of Putney); they have two sons.
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- "DodOnline". http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26532. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
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