Robert Carr 859542 214554667 2008-05-24T02:39:03Z 79.70.15.159 {{otherpeople|Robert Carr}} {{Infobox_Officeholder | honorific-prefix = <small>The Right Honourable</small>,<br> | name=Leonard Robert Carr | honorific-suffix =<br><small>Baron Carr of Hadley,<br>[[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]]</small> | order=[[Secretary of State for Employment]] | term_start=[[20 June]] [[1970]] | term_end=[[7 April]] [[1972]] | primeminister=[[Edward Heath]] | predecessor=[[Barbara Castle]] | successor=[[Maurice Macmillan]] | order2=[[Leader of the House of Commons]]<br>&<br>[[Lord President of the Council]] | term_start2=[[7 April]] | term_end2=[[5 November]] [[1972]] | primeminister2=[[Edward Heath]] | predecessor2= [[William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw|William Whitelaw]] | successor2=[[James Prior|Jim Prior]] | order3=[[Home Secretary]] | term_start3=[[18 July]] [[1972]] | term_end3=[[4 March]] [[1974]] | primeminister3=[[Edward Heath]] | predecessor3=[[Reginald Maudling]] | successor3=[[Roy Jenkins]] | alma_mater =[[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]] | birth_date ={{birth date and age|1916|11|11|df=y}} | party=[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] }} '''Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC''' (born [[11 November]] [[1916]]) is a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician. Robert Carr was educated at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]] where he read [[Natural science|Natural Sciences]], graduating in [[1938]]. He was elected [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Mitcham (UK Parliament constituency)|Mitcham]] in [[1950]] and served there until [[1974]] when the seat was merged and he moved to [[Carshalton (UK Parliament constituency)|Carshalton]]. In [[Edward Heath]]'s government he served as [[Secretary of State for Employment]] and was responsible for the [[Industrial Relations Act 1971]], which balanced the introduction of compensation for unfair dismissal with curbs on the freedom to [[Strike action|strike]] and the virual abolition of [[closed shop]] agreements. In [[1971]] he escaped injury when the [[Angry Brigade]] anarchist group exploded two bombs outside his house [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/12/newsid_2523000/2523465.stm]. More than thirty years later a member of the group issued a public apology to Carr, and sent him a Christmas card.[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,644062,00.html] In [[1972]] he served a brief spell as [[Lord President of the Council]] and was then appointed [[Home Secretary]] after the resignation of [[Reginald Maudling]]. He was created a [[Life peer]] as '''Baron Carr of Hadley''', of [[Monken Hadley]], [[North London]], in [[1976]]. {{Home_Secretaries}} {{start box}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Mitcham (UK Parliament constituency)|Mitcham]] | years = [[United Kingdom general election, 1950|1950]]&ndash;[[United Kingdom general election, February 1974|February 1974]] | before = [[Thomas Braddock]] | after = ''(constituency abolished)'' }} {{succession box | title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Carshalton (UK Parliament constituency)|Carshalton]] | years = [[United Kingdom general election, February 1974|February 1974]]&ndash;[[Carshalton by-election, 1976|1976]] | before = [[Walter Elliot (English politician)|Walter Elliot]] | after = [[Nigel Forman]] }} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title = [[Secretary of State for Employment]] | years = 1970&ndash;1972 | before = [[Barbara Castle]] | after = [[Maurice Macmillan]] }} {{succession box two to two | title1 = [[Lord President of the Council]] | title2 = [[Leader of the House of Commons]] | years1 = 1972 | years2 = 1972 | before = [[William Whitelaw]] | after = [[James Prior]] }} {{succession box | title = [[Secretary of State for the Home Department|Home Secretary]] | years = 1972&ndash;1974 | before = [[Reginald Maudling]] | after = [[Roy Jenkins]] }} {{end box}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Carr, Robert}} [[Category:1916 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies]] [[Category:Conservative MPs (UK)]] [[Category:Life peers|Carr of Hadley]] [[Category:British Secretaries of State]] [[Category:Lord Presidents of the Council]] [[Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]] [[Category:Presidents of Surrey CCC]] [[Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:UK MPs 1950-1951]] [[Category:UK MPs 1951-1955]] [[Category:UK MPs 1955-1959]] [[Category:UK MPs 1959-1964]] [[Category:UK MPs 1964-1966]] [[Category:UK MPs 1966-1970]] [[Category:UK MPs 1970-1974]] [[Category:UK MPs 1974]] [[Category:UK MPs 1974-1979]] [[de:Leonard Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley]] [[pl:Robert Carr]] [[fi:Robert Carr]]