| The Right Honourable The Lord Renton of Mount Harry PC |
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| Chief Whip of the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury |
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| In office 24 July 1989 – 28 November 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | David Waddington |
| Succeeded by | Richard Ryder |
| Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex |
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| In office 28 February 1974 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | Nicholas Soames |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 May 1932 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, PC (born 28 May 1932), is a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a Minister of State in both the Foreign Office and the Home Office, and as a Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. He was promoted to the Cabinet serving as Margaret Thatcher's Chief Whip between 1989-1990. After Thatcher's resignation in 1990 he remained in the Cabinet serving in John Major's government as Minister for the Arts between 1990–1992.
Tim Renton, who rarely uses his first name of Ronald, won scholarships to Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford and graduated with a first class degree in History.
He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid-Sussex from 1974 to 1997, after which he was created a life peer as Baron Renton of Mount Harry, of Offham in the County of East Sussex and took his seat in the House of Lords.
He lives in Offham near Lewes in East Sussex and has a holiday home on the Hebridean island of Tiree.
In 1960 he married Alice Blanche Helen Fergusson. Their four surviving children are Alexander James Torre (a journalist on The Times),[1] Christian Louise, Daniel Charles Antony and (Katherine) Chelsea. Polly (Penelope Sally Rosita), the couple's youngest daughter, a documentary film maker, died in a car accident in 2010.[1]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex 1974–1997 |
Succeeded by Nicholas Soames |
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| Preceded by David Waddington |
Chief Whip of the House of Commons 1989–1990 |
Succeeded by Richard Ryder |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1989–1990 |
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| Preceded by David Mellor |
Minister of State for the Arts 1990–1992 |
Succeeded by Mark Fisher |