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The Right Honourable
The Lord McAvoy
KBE PC
Official portrait, 2019
Opposition Chief Whip of the House of Lords
In office 25 January 2018 – 31 May 2021
Leader
Jeremy Corbyn
Keir Starmer
Preceded by
The Lord Bassam of Brighton
Succeeded by
The Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in House of Lords
In office 27 May 2015 – 24 January 2018
Serving with Denis Tunnicliffe
Leader
Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by
The Baroness Smith of Basildon
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons
Treasurer of the Household
In office 5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
Preceded by
Nick Brown
Succeeded by
John Randall
Comptroller of the Household
In office 2 May 1997 – 5 October 2008
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Preceded by
Timothy Wood
Succeeded by
John Spellar
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office 22 June 2010 – 8 March 2024 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Glasgow Rutherglen (1987–2005)
In office 11 June 1987 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by
Gregor Mackenzie
Succeeded by
Tom Greatrex
Personal details
Born
(1943-12-14)14 December 1943 Rutherglen, Scotland
Died
8 March 2024(2024-03-08) (aged 80)
Nationality
British
Political party
Labour and Co-operative
Spouse
Eleanor McAvoy
Children
4
Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy, Baron McAvoy, KBE, PC (14 December 1943 – 8 March 2024) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords from 2010 until his death in 2024.[1] He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Rutherglen from 1987 to 2005, and Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2005 to 2010.
McAvoy held several positions in the Government Whips' Office under the Blair and Brown governments, serving as Comptroller of the Household from 1997 to 2008 and Treasurer of the Household from 2008 to 2010. He entered the Lords after choosing not to seek re-election to the Commons, where he served as an opposition spokesperson for Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as a senior whip. McAvoy held the position of Lords opposition chief whip from 2018 to 2021 after serving as Deputy Chief Whip from 2015 to 2018.
^"Former whip Tommy McAvoy takes seat in House of Lords". BBC News. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
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