John Monson, 11th Baron Monson

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John Monson, 11th Baron Monson (born May 3, 1932 - February 12, 2011 in London ) was a British politician and peer .

life and career

Monson was born on May 3, 1932, the eldest son of John Roseberry Monson, 10th Baron Monson (1907-1958) and Bettie Northrup Powell. He attended Eton College in Berkshire and Trinity College at the University of Cambridge , where he studied economics and geography . He graduated there in 1954 with a Bachelor of Arts . After graduating, he began to work in publishing .

He has been President of the Society for Individual Freedom (SIF) since 1975 . In this office he advocated the “traditional freedoms and civil rights of British citizens”. In this office he rejected all laws that he thought were restrictive. He rejected the Maastricht Treaty .

Monson was also a director of Burton Energy Supply Company Limited . Monson was a member of the trustee of the Almshouses Trust and the Center for Research into Post-Communist Economies .

Membership in the House of Lords

After the death of his father on April 7, 1958, he inherited his title and the associated seat in the House of Lords . There he sat as a crossbencher . He gave his inaugural address on July 17, 1968.

In the House of Lords he spoke regularly on the subject of civil rights . In the late 1970s, he unsuccessfully campaigned against the compulsory wearing of seat belts . He rejected parts of the Sex Discrimination Act as "censorship" and spoke out against the expansion of the Race Relations Act to include the family or workers' associations .

He supported the concerns of ethnic groups that had been disadvantaged or dispossessed by the course of time and historical developments, including the Algerian natives who favored the French to stay, the South Vietnamese after their defeat by North Vietnam , and white Rhodesians and Protestants in Northern Ireland .

Monson was one of 90 hereditary peers who were elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 and could keep their seat. His voting behavior was very strongly directed against the legal equality of homosexuals and further integration into the EU . Most of Monson's allies, particularly in the area of European politics , belonged to the right wing of the Conservative Party . Monson himself, however, never became a party member; in his opinion, he could achieve far more as an “independent”. He felt confirmed in his view when state regulations increased under the government of Margaret Thatcher . Even before he became active in the House of Lords, he was known as a regular letter writer. He also voted against laws intended to stop climate change .

He last took part in a debate on December 13, 2010. Most recently, he took part in a vote on January 26, 2011.

Family and death

Monson married Emma Devas on April 2, 1955, the daughter of the painter Anthony Devas (1911-1958) and Nicolette Macnamara (1911-1987), with whom he was married until his death in 2011. They had three sons, including his heir, the journalist and eventual heir to the title, Nicholas John Monson, 12th Baron Monson . Monson was also a grandfather.

After his father's sudden death in 1958, he inherited North Carlton Hall , which he sold five years later. He and his family moved to a South Carlton manor where he administered the estate and became an award-winning chrysanthemum breeder .

He owned, partly with his wife, farmland in Lincolnshire , which included commercial and residential properties . He and other family members owned pastureland in Surrey .

Towards the end of his life, Monson suffered from health problems. Monson died in hospital on February 12, 2011, aged 78, of head injuries previously sustained in a fall at his home in London .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick W. Montague-Smith: Debrett's peerage and baronetage (1980)
  2. ↑ SIF Structure ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Company structure on the Society for Individual Freedom website , accessed February 19, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.individualist.org.uk
  3. ↑ Freedom campaigner Lord Monson dies aged 78 Telegraph death report from February 12, 2011
  4. ↑ BURTON ENERGY SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED Burton Energy Supply Company Limited at companiesintheuk.co.uk , accessed February 19, 2011
  5. ↑ The Board of Trustees ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Center for Research into Post-Communist Economies , accessed February 19, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.crce.org.uk
  6. ↑ Lady Monson Highway History on the US Department of Transportation website , accessed February 20, 2011
  7. ^ John [Monson , 11th Baron Monson ] entry on Cracroftspeerage , accessed February 21, 2011
  8. ↑ THE Monson OF ENGLAND AND THE Monsen OF DENMARK 1100-present [1 ] The Munson of Texas - an American saga , accessed 21 February 2011
predecessor Office successor
John Monson Baron Monson
1958-2011 		Nicholas Monson
personal data
SURNAME Monson, John, 11th Baron Monson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monson, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1932
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2011
Place of death London