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David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC , (born January 18 , 1936 ) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. His daughter Frances is married to the Conservative MP George Osborne . Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge , after five years as a journalist he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Dudley in the 1964 General Election . Two years later he won the seat of Guildford in Surrey , a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 General Election . Later in this year, he was made a Life Peer as Baron Howell of Guildford, of Penton Mewsey in the County of Hampshire . When Margaret Thatcher was elected in 1979 , she made Howell her first Secretary Of State For Energy and then moved him to Transport in the reshuffle of September 1981 . In 1987 he became Chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is credited with having coined the term ' Privatisation '.
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