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Thomas Gray Boardman, Baron Boardman MC, TD, DL, PC (12 January 1919 – 10 March 2003) was an English Conservative politician and businessman. Boardman was born into a Northamptonshire farming family, and lived in the county all his life, becoming Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1977, and High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1979. ==Military and political service== During the Second World War he served in the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry. He joined the regiment as a trooper, but was selected for training at Sandhurst and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the regiment on 14 September 1940. He won the Military Cross (MC) in Normandy during Operation Overlord, in the early part of the operation to trap German forces in the Falaise Pocket. By this time he was an acting captain, he was detailed to act as navigator for four armoured columns formed from his own regiment, and 1st battalion Black Watch, the columns were to take Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil, about 20 kilometres south of Caen. On 6 and 7 August 1944 he conducted reconnaissance in no man's land, despite German fire, to allow him to find the route in darkness. He then successfully led the columns forward on the night of 7/8 August, several times dismounting from his tank, and going back on foot to find parts of the columns which had lost touch, again he was under German mortar and machine gun fire. On 8 August his squadron (of which he was second in command) beat off a heavy counter-attack, the citation for his MC gives much of the credit for this, and the destruction of 12 German tanks, to him.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Documents Online—Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army)—Image details: Boardman, Thomas Gray )〕 His MC was gazetted on 21 December 1944. Boardman was later the commander of the Yeomanry when they became part of the Territorial Army. In peacetime he qualified and practised as a solicitor in Northampton, and served on the boards of several companies, including Allied Breweries. After two unsuccessful attempts, in a 1967 by-election he won the parliamentary constituency of Leicester South-West for the Conservative Party, holding the seat in the subsequent general election in 1970.〔 In 1972, he was made Minister for Industry, and a month before the February 1974 general election (in which he was elected for the newly reconstituted Leicester South), he became Chief Secretary to the Treasury.〔 In the October election of the same year, he lost his parliamentary seat to the Labour Party's Jim Marshall.〔 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「Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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