Lord Howie of Troon obituary

Labour MP and peer who fought for enhanced status for his profession of engineeringThe former Labour peer Lord Howie of Troon, who has died aged 94, spent nearly half a century in parliament arguing the need for an enhanced public status for his own profession of engineering. It was the subject of his maiden speech as an MP in 1963 and a topic to which he frequently returned in witty and well-informed contributions in the Lords.“Were it not for engineers, the artists, philosophers and men