Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Murton of Lindisfarne | |
Honorific-Suffix: | OBE TD PC |
Office: | Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Chairman of Ways and Means |
Term Start: | 3 February 1976 |
Term End: | 10 May 1979 |
1Blankname: | Speaker |
1Namedata: | George Thomas |
Predecessor: | George Thomas |
Successor: | Bernard Weatherill |
Office1: | Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means |
Term Start1: | 12 March 1974 |
Term End1: | 3 February 1976 |
Predecessor1: | Lance Mallalieu |
Successor1: | Myer Galpern |
Office2: | Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means |
Term Start2: | 1973 |
Term End2: | 28 February 1974 |
Predecessor2: | Lance Mallalieu |
Successor2: | Myer Galpern |
Office3: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start3: | 25 July 1979 |
Term End3: | 5 July 2009 Life Peerage |
Office4: | Member of Parliament for Poole |
Term Start4: | 15 October 1964 |
Term End4: | 7 April 1979 |
Predecessor4: | Richard Pilkington |
Successor4: | John Ward |
Birth Date: | 8 May 1914 |
Birth Place: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
Party: | Conservative Party |
Alma Mater: | Uppingham School |
Henry Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne (8 May 1914 – 5 July 2009[1]) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Murton was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne[2] and educated at Uppingham School. He joined the Territorial Army with a commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1934. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1937 and to Captain in 1939. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the General Staff from 1942 to 1946. He later became a managing director of department stores.
Murton was Member of Parliament for Poole from 1964 to 1979, preceding John Ward. Murton was a government whip under Edward Heath and later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1973 to 1979. He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor in 1976, and after his retirement from the House of Commons at the 1979 general election, he was given a life peerage as Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, of Hexham in the County of Northumberland on 25 July 1979.
Escutcheon: | Argent a lion tricorporate Sable on a chief Sable three crosses of St Cuthbert Argent. |
Crest: | In front of a blackcock drumming Proper three crosses of St Cuthbert Argent. |
Supporters: | Dexter a lion guardant Sable langued and armed Gules gorged with a circlet of St Cuthbert crosses linked Argent pendent therefrom an escallop Or, sinister a like lion similarly gorged pendent therefrom a portcullis Gold the compartment comprising a grassy mount Proper surrounded by water barry wavy Azure and Argent. |
Motto: | Quo Eas Voca [3] |