Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Howie of Troon | |
Office: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start: | 21 April 1978 |
Term End: | 26 May 2018 Life Peerage |
Office1: | Comptroller of the Household |
Primeminister1: | Harold Wilson |
Term Start1: | 1967 |
Term End1: | 1968 |
Predecessor1: | William Whitlock |
Successor1: | Ioan Evans |
Office2: | Member of Parliament for Luton |
Term Start2: | 7 November 1963 |
Term End2: | 29 May 1970 |
Predecessor2: | Charles Hill |
Successor2: | Charles Simeons |
Birth Date: | 2 March 1924 |
Party: | Labour |
William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon (2 March 1924 – 26 May 2018),[1] known as Will Howie, was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP).
Howie was elected to the House of Commons at a 1963 by-election in the Luton constituency, following the appointment of Conservative MP Charles Hill as chairman of the Independent Television Authority. He was re-elected at the 1964 general election with a majority of only 723 votes.
He held his seat at the 1966 election with an increased majority of 2,464, but at the 1970 general election he lost his seat to the Conservative Charles Simeons.
On 21 April 1978, he was made a life peer as Baron Howie of Troon, of Troon in the District of Kyle and Carrick.[2]
On 17 July 2007 it was revealed that Howie provided a parliamentary security pass to Douglas Smith, Chairman of the lobbying group Westminster Advisers.[3]