We learned with sadness today of the death of one of The Bow Group founders, William Rees-Mogg.
Ben Harris-Quinney, The Chairman of The Bow Group said:
‘Every movement, every political party, requires a foundation of philosophy and ideas. For many years, William Rees-Mogg offerred the conservative movement a mind capable of providing both, he was the model of the intellectual conservative.
His foundation of the Bow Group alongside Geoffrey Howe and Norman St John-Stevas in 1951 gave the Conservative Party access to his ideas, but also built a necessary structure of free and open debate on philosophy and policy that has continued to contribute to the conservative movement and to the life of the nation to this day.
Lord Rees-Mogg was a pioneer and inventor of the modern think-tank and the birth of the battle of ideas in British politics. He will be greatly missed by his organisation, the Bow Group.’

