member of the Conservative Monday Club, for whom he authored a booklet entitled Right Angle, and was guest-of-honour at their Annual Dinner in 1970. The Club was, however, divided on the EEC (European Community) issue, and at their conference in October 1971 members moved and carried a resolution opposing Britain's entry. From 1979 to 1982, Rippon was President of the European Documentation and Information Centre (CEDI). He was created a life peer on 5 October 1987 taking the title Baron Rippon of Hexham, of Hesleyside in the County of Northumberland. Arms References Copping, Robert, The Story of The Monday Club – The First Decade, (Foreword by George Pole), Current Affairs Information Service, Ilford, Essex, April 1972, (P/B). External links |- |- |- |- |- |- 1924 births 1997 deaths 20th-century English lawyers Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford British Secretaries of State for the Environment Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster Conservative Party (UK) MEPs Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Rippon of Hexham Councillors in Greater London English King's Counsel English barristers MEPs for the United Kingdom 1973–1979 Mayors of places in Greater London Members of London County Council Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 People educated at King's College, Taunton People from Chiltern District Presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 UK MPs 1983–1987