John Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene
John David Clotworthy Whyte-Melville Foster Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene, 7th Viscount Ferrard (born June 3, 1940 ) is a British peer .
Live and act
John Skeffington inherited his father's title in 1992 and regularly attended meetings of the House of Lords , where he sat due to his subordinate British title Baron Oriel , as his Irish titles did not legitimize him to a seat. He lost his hereditary parliamentary seat when the House of Lords Act 1999 was introduced . In 2013 he ran for UKIP to no avail .
He went to school in Millfield and later to the Monte Rosa Institute . From 1958 to 1961 he served in the Grenadier Guards regiment . He owns a lot of land, holds some director positions and is a stock broker at MDBarnard & Co. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange from 1961 to 1964 and from 1970 onwards .
Lord Massereene managed the sale of the Chilham Castle family home , which had been for sale since 1994, but was only sold well below expected price in 1996.
Like his father, he is president of the Conservative Monday Club and was a patron of Right Now! . He was on the board of the Freedom Association and Signatory entitled Lord Oriel by The Sanity petition , with the acronym "Sanity" for " S ubjects A gainst the NI ce T reat Y " stands.
ancestors
1. John Skeffington, 10. Viscount Massereene ⚭ Olivia Grady
- Clotworthy Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene ⚭ Florence Whyte-Melville
- Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene ⚭ Jean Ainsworth
- John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene ⚭ Annabelle Lewis
- John Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene ⚭ Ann Denise Rowlandson
- John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene ⚭ Annabelle Lewis
- Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene ⚭ Jean Ainsworth
Marriage and offspring
He has been married to Anne Denise Rowlandson since 1970. He has three children with her:
- Harriette Skeffington ⚭ Richard Murray Wells
- Henry William Norman Foster Clotworthy Skeffington ⚭ Sophie Crouch
- Charles Clotworthy Whyte-Melville Foster Skeffington (* 1973) ⚭ Olga Dixon-Brown
Web links
- John Skeffington at Hansard (English)
- John David Clotworthy Whyte-Melville Foster Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene on thepeerage.com , accessed September 17, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Baron Oriel ( Memento of October 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Sanity Petition ( Memento of October 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor | Office | successor |
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John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington |
Viscount Massereene Viscount Ferrard 1992 – today |
current owner of the title |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Skeffington, John, 14th Viscount Massereene |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Skeffington, John David Clotworthy Whyte-Melville Foster, 14th Viscount Massereene and 7th Viscount Ferrard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1940 |