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{{Short description|British Conservative politician (1932β2020)}} {{Other people|Lord Renton|Baron Renton (disambiguation){{!}}Baron Renton}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Lord Renton of Mount Harry | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC|DL}} | image = Lord Renton of Mount Harry 2013.jpg | caption = Renton in Parliament, 2013 {{Collapsed infobox section begin|div=yes|Ministerial offices 1984β1992}} | office = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts|Minister of State for the Arts]] | primeminister = [[John Major]] | term_start = 28 November 1990 | term_end = 11 April 1992 | predecessor = [[David Mellor]] | successor = [[David Mellor]] (as [[Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport|Secretary of State for National Heritage]]) | office1 = {{ubl|[[Government Chief Whip]] in the [[House of Commons]]|[[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury]]}} | primeminister1 = [[Margaret Thatcher]] | term_start1 = 24 July 1989 | term_end1 = 28 November 1990 | predecessor1 = [[David Waddington]] | successor1 = [[Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum|Richard Ryder]] | office2 = [[Minister of State for Immigration]] | primeminister2 = [[Margaret Thatcher]] | term_start2 = 13 June 1987 | term_end2 = 25 July 1989 | predecessor2 = [[David Waddington]] | successor2 = [[Peter Lloyd (politician)|Peter Lloyd]] | office3 = [[Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom)|Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]] | primeminister3 = [[Margaret Thatcher]] | term_start3 = 2 September 1985 | term_end3 = 13 June 1987 | predecessor3 = [[Richard Luce, Baron Luce|Richard Luce]] | successor3 = [[David Mellor]] | office4 = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]] | primeminister4 = [[Margaret Thatcher]] | term_start4 = 11 September 1984 | term_end4 = 1 September 1985 | predecessor4 = [[Ray Whitney (politician)|Ray Whitney]] | successor4 = [[Tim Eggar]] {{Collapsed infobox section end}} | office6 = [[Member of the House of Lords]] | status6 = [[Lord Temporal]] | term_label6 = [[Life peer]]age | term_start6 = 8 June 1997 | term_end6 = 14 April 2016 | office7 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Mid Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Sussex]] | term_start7 = 28 February 1974 | term_end7 = 8 April 1997 | predecessor7 = [[Boundary commissions (United Kingdom)|''Constituency established'']] | successor7 = [[Nicholas Soames]] | birth_name = Ronald Timothy Renton | birth_date = {{birth date|1932|5|28|df=y}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|8|25|1932|5|28|df=y}} | death_place = [[Hamsey|Offham]], [[East Sussex]], England | party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] | education = [[Eton College]] | alma_mater = [[Magdalen College, Oxford]] | spouse = {{marriage|Alice Fergusson|1960}} | children = 5, including [[Alex Renton|Alex]] and [[Polly Renton|Polly]] }} '''Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|PC|DL}} (28 May 1932 – 25 August 2020) was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician.
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