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Classify Very Light/White Haired Former Chancellor of the Exchequer - Norman Lamont
Norman Lamont (Lord Lamont of Lerwick.)
Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick, PC (born 8 May 1942)
is a British politician and former Conservative MP for Kingston-upon-Thames, southern England.
He is best known for his period serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1990 until 1993.
He was created a life peer in 1998.
Lamont is a supporter of the Eurosceptic organisation Leave Means Leave.
Lamont was born in Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands off the north-east coast of Scotland,
where his father was the islands' surgeon.
He was raised in Grimsby.
He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, Scotland,
and read Economics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
where he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association
and President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1964.
He also took part in the English-Speaking Union's Tour of the United States.
At Cambridge he was a contemporary of Michael Howard, Kenneth Clarke, Leon Brittan,
and John Gummer all of whom became leading figures in the Conservative Party.
The group was sometimes collectively known as the Cambridge Mafia.
Lamont became chairman of centre-right think tank the Bow Group between 1971-2.
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