For the production designer, see Owen Paterson (production designer).
The Right Honourable
Owen Paterson
Official portrait, 2020
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
In office 4 September 2012 – 14 July 2014
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Preceded by
Caroline Spelman
Succeeded by
Liz Truss
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Preceded by
Shaun Woodward
Succeeded by
Theresa Villiers
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 2 July 2007 – 11 May 2010
Leader
David Cameron
Preceded by
David Lidington
Succeeded by
Shaun Woodward
Member of Parliament for North Shropshire
In office 1 May 1997 – 5 November 2021
Preceded by
John Biffen
Succeeded by
Helen Morgan
Personal details
Born
Owen William Paterson
(1956-06-24) 24 June 1956 (age 67) Whitchurch, Shropshire, England
Political party
Conservative
Spouse
Rose Ridley
(m. 1980; died 2020)
Children
3
Education
Radley College
Alma mater
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Website
owenpaterson.org
Owen William Paterson (born 24 June 1956) is a British former politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2010 to 2012 and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012 to 2014 under Prime Minister David Cameron. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Shropshire from 1997 until his resignation in 2021. Paterson was also the President of the Northern Ireland Conservatives.
Paterson was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet of David Cameron in 2007 as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. During the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010, he was appointed to the Cabinet as Northern Ireland Secretary, where he remained until being moved to Environment Secretary in 2012. He was dismissed as Environment Secretary by Prime Minister David Cameron as part of the 2014 Cabinet reshuffle, and was replaced by Liz Truss. After returning to the backbenches, Paterson became a leading supporter of Brexit as a member of the European Research Group (ERG).
Paterson resigned from the House of Commons on 5 November 2021 amid controversy surrounding a report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards that found that he had broken paid advocacy rules.
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on 5 November 2021 that Wakeford approached OwenPaterson and called him "a cunt" during the OwenPaterson affair, after the government, under the instruction...
than half of his fellow Conservative MPs, including Cabinet ministers OwenPaterson and David Jones. He also subsequently appointed two women who had voted...
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premiership had been impacted by controversies over his actions relating to OwenPaterson's lobbying and the Partygate scandal. These, combined with impacts on...
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2021. "OwenPaterson row: Government U-turn over MPs' conduct plan". BBC News. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021. "Tory MP OwenPaterson resigns...
while referencing the suicide of the wife of the Conservative MP OwenPaterson. Rose Paterson committed suicide by hanging in June 2020. She later tweeted...
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