David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

The Right Honourable The Lord Howell of Guildford PC
Official portrait, 2020
Minister of State for International Energy Policy
In office 14 May 2010 – 5 September 2012
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	The Baroness Warsi
Secretary of State for Transport
In office 14 September 1981 – 11 June 1983
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Norman Fowler
Succeeded by	Tom King
Secretary of State for Energy
In office 4 May 1979 – 14 September 1981
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Tony Benn
Succeeded by	Nigel Lawson
Junior ministerial offices Minister of State for Energy In office 8 January 1974 – 4 March 1974 Prime Minister Edward Heath Sec. of State The Lord Carrington Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Thomas Balogh Minister of State for Northern Ireland In office 5 November 1972 – 8 January 1974 Prime Minister Edward Heath Sec. of State Francis Pym Preceded by William van Straubenzee Succeeded by Stan Orme Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland In office 26 March 1972 – 5 November 1972 Prime Minister Edward Heath Sec. of State Willie Whitelaw Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Peter Mills Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment In office 5 January 1971 – 26 March 1972 Prime Minister Edward Heath Sec. of State Robert Carr Maurice Macmillan Preceded by Dudley Smith Succeeded by Nicholas Scott Lord Commissioner of the Treasury In office 24 June 1970 – 6 January 1971 Prime Minister Edward Heath Chancellor Anthony Barber Preceded by Reginald Eyre Succeeded by Hector Monro Parliamentary Secretary for the Civil Service Department In office 23 June 1970 – 26 March 1972 Prime Minister Edward Heath Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Kenneth Baker
Committee offices Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee In office 25 May 2016 – 1 July 2019 Preceded by Committee established Succeeded by The Baroness Anelay of St Johns Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee In office 1 January 1987 – 21 March 1997 Preceded by Anthony Kershaw Succeeded by Donald Anderson
Further offices held Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords In office 8 June 2005 – 6 May 2010 Leader Michael Howard David Cameron Shad. Leader The Lord Strathclyde Shadowing The Lord Rooker The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Incumbent Assumed office 18 June 1997 Life Peerage Member of Parliament for Guildford In office 31 March 1966 – 8 April 1997 Preceded by George Nugent Succeeded by Nick St Aubyn
Personal details
Born	David Arthur Russell Howell (1936-01-18) 18 January 1936 (age 88) London, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Cary Davina Wallace ​ (m. 1967)​
Children	3, including Frances
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge

David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC (born 18 January 1936)^[1] is a British Conservative Party politician, journalist, and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher, Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague, Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke, he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party, being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter, Frances, was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.^[2]