Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley

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Coat of arms of the Berkeley family. Motto: Virtute non vi (Latin: Through bravery instead of strength)

Anthony Fitzhardinge Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley , OBE (born September 20, 1939 ), known as Tony Berkeley , is a British Labor Party politician .

Origin and family

Anthony Gueterbock is a great-grandson of Ludwig Güterbock (* October 23, 1814 in Berlin ; † February 28, 1895 ibid.) And Bertha Lesser (* February 8, 1821; † January 9, 1894). Both gravestones are still in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin, Schönhauser Allee 23-25.

Ludwig was the first of his family to study and on November 4, 1867, he became a secret medical councilor . The family assimilated quickly: while his father Baer Levin was still the eldest of Berlin Jews, Ludwig's three children were Paul (* June 2, 1844; † October 17, 1897), Alfred (* December 28, 1845; † June 2, 1929 ), Grandfather of Anthony Gueterbock, and Richard (* February 11, 1850; † June 26, 1917) already baptized Evangelicals in Berlin, the two older brothers together on October 30, 1860 in the Jerusalem Church ., Richard on January 2, 1866 as well .

The family owned a bank at that time, Moritz Güterbock & Co., which was run by the Ludwigs brothers. When it was voluntarily dissolved as a result of a scandal in 1870/71, the two younger brothers, who had become merchants following the family tradition, were at home anyway , unlike their eldest brother, who died as a professor of medicine and secret medical councilor in Berlin economic basis withdrawn. They remained active in Manchester , where Alfred had moved around 1864 to join his mother's relatives in the Lesser cotton company.

Alfred married Anna Prüßmann from Hanover on February 19, 1880 (* May 11, 1857; † October 10, 1928). The couple had four children: the youngest, Ernest Gueterbock (born June 24, 1897; † November 17, 1984), became a career officer in the British Army (1938 Col. , 1942 Brigadier ) and married The Hon. Cynthia on August 4, 1937 Ella Foley (born January 31, 1909 Ambala / India ; † December 1, 1991), daughter of Lt.-Col. Frank Wigram Foley et al. Eva Mary FitzHardinge Milman, 16th Baroness Berkley, whose only child was Anthony Gueterbock.

Anthony Gueterbock is related to Karl Güterbock (* April 18, 1830; † July 9, 1914), his father Eduard (* October 22, 1801; † December 3, 1875), and Hans-Gustav Güterbock (* May 27, 1908; † March 29, 2000), whose grandfather Gustav (born May 19, 1820; † October 3, 1910) was Ludwig Güterbock's eldest and youngest brother.

Career

After attending Eton College and studying at Trinity College in Cambridge , Gueterbock graduated with a Master of Arts (MA), he started a career in civil engineering and was chairman of George Wimpey plc until 1987 . He was then responsible for public relations during the construction of the Eurotunnel until 1995. Gueterbock is currently Chairman of the Rail Freight Group . He is a member of the European Commission's European Energy and Transport Forum and President of the Aviation Environment Federation, the UK's leading non-profit organization for a green future in aviation.

Gueterbock inherited the title of Baron Berkeley after the death of his aunt Mary Foley-Berkeley, 17th Baroness Berkeley, on October 17, 1992 . On April 18, 2000, as Baron Gueterbock , of Cranford in the London Borough of Hillingdon, he was raised to a Life Peer , since according to the House of Lords Act 1999 the hereditary peers left the House of Lords and he was otherwise no longer a member of the House of Lords could have been.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and the Chartered Institute of Transport (FCIT) and received an Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) from Brighton University in 1996 .

He married on July 10, 1965 Diana Christine (Dido) Townsend (born October 6, 1942), daughter of Eric William John Townsend, and had three children with her. In his second marriage, he has been married to Rosalind Julia Georgina Clarke since May 8, 1999.

literature

  • Charles Mosley (Editor), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, three volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), Volume 1, p. 347
  • Peter W. Hammond (Editor), The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times , Volume XIV: Supplements & Corrections (Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998), 88

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GehStaatsA Preuss. Kulturbesitz Berl VIII HAbt. J 1 No. 1 sheet 85 No. 3
  2. ^ Zunz, signature on December 11, 1825, cf. jewish-archives.org .
  3. ↑ PrGStA Berl VIII HAbt. J 1 No. 1 sheet 46 No. 7
  4. ↑ page 43, no. 339a and No. 339b
  5. ↑ PrGStA Berl Rep. 97 Kammergericht XI 50 (old) Lit. G No. 1/71, to 50 (old) 104/68, 50a (old) Lit. G No. 317/70, 50b (old) No. 8 / 70.
  6. ↑ Grethe Auer, When I look at my life ... Vienna - Bern - Morocco - Berlin, Berlin 1995, pp. 261f.
  7. ↑ The neoclassical wall grave in the old Matthäi-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg (Q-WE-013/014) was restored at the end of 2013
  8. ^ Message from William Gueterbock dated December 27, 2012.
  9. ^ Entry on the survey on the life peer at leighrayment.com (English) .
predecessor Office successor
Mary Foley-Berkeley Baron Berkeley
1992 – present 		current title holder
personal data
SURNAME Gueterbock, Anthony, 18th Baron Berkeley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berkeley, Tony; Gueterbock, Anthony Fitzhardinge, Baron Gueterbock
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor)
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1939