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Malcolm Everard MacLaren Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch (born 20 July 1942, Devizes, Wiltshire) is a British businessman and former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). He is a member of the House of Lords. ==Biography== Born in Devizes, the son of John M. Pearson and Rosabel C Moysey, and educated at Eton College, Pearson had a successful career in international insurance until he resigned on becoming leader of UKIP. He was made a life peer on 18 June 1990 as Baron Pearson of Rannoch, of Bridge of Gaur in the District of Perth and Kinross, sitting as a Conservative. He entered the House for services to the insurance industry, particularly his anti-corruption stance on the Savonita affair.〔"Pay up and play the game", Investors Chronicle, 15 December 1978 and "Unsavoury Savonita", The Economist, 16 December 1978〕 In February 1997, Hugo Gurdon published an interview in the ''Daily Telegraph'' with Pearson, discussing his metaphysical and political beliefs and motivations.〔"God's Euro-sceptic" ''Daily Telegraph'', 1 February 1997〕〔Daily Telegraph letters "Don't bomb Kohl". 3 February 1997〕 Pearson became Treasurer of the degree-awarding body to the Polytechnic sector, Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) serving from 1983-1992. A daughter from his second marriage, born in 1980, introduced him to the world of learning disabilities for which he has done extensive work and fundraising, in particular for the Camphill movement. Pearson is a euro-sceptic of long standing. In May 2004, he called for voters to back the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Along with three other Conservative peers, he was then expelled by the Conservative Party on 30 May. He subsequently said that he would probably sit as an "independent Conservative". He threatened to quit the Conservatives to join UKIP, which he did on 7 January 2007,〔(The Times )〕 along with Lord Willoughby de Broke. Pearson criticised the Conservative Party's leadership for being "silly" and argued that they should try to get UKIP members back into the fold by adopting more eurosceptic policies themselves. He has tabled a number of unsuccessful bills in the House of Lords demanding Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. In November 2006 he tabled the European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill, which called for an official cost benefit analysis of UK's EU membership. He joined the United Kingdom Independence Party on 7 January 2007, citing David Cameron's refusal to tell the British people about the disadvantages they suffer because of Britain's membership of the EU. He is also the co-founder of pro-free-trade think-tank, Global Britain, which publishes research on the BBC's EU coverage and on the cost of UK membership of the EU. He is active in the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance, serving as chairman of its deerstalking committee. Pearson has been married three times: to Francesca Frua de Angeli in 1965, with whom he had one daughter and whom he divorced in 1970; to the Hon. Mary Charteris (daughter of Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield) in 1977, with whom he had two daughters and whom he divorced in 1995; and to Caroline St Vincent Rose in 1997 - she stood as the UKIP candidate in Kensington in the UK general election in 2010, coming 4th with 754 votes. In February 2009, Lord Pearson and cross-bencher Baroness Cox invited the controversial Dutch Freedom Party leader, Geert Wilders, to show the anti-Islam film ''Fitna'' before the House of Lords. Jacqui Smith,〔The Guardian, ("Far-right Dutch MP refused entry to UK" ), 12 February 2009〕 then Home Secretary, subsequently excluded Wilders from entry to the UK. In response, Pearson and Cox accused the then Government of "appeasing" militant Islam.〔The Daily Telegraph, ("Dutch MP Geert Wilders deported after flying to Britain to show anti-Islamic film" ), 12 February 2009〕 Wilders appealed successfully against his exclusion, and the film was eventually shown in the Lords in 2010. Pearson also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Global Panel Foundation, a NGO that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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