Robert Kindersley, 3rd Baron Kindersley

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Robert Hugh Molesworth Kindersley, 3rd Baron Kindersley , DL (born August 18, 1929 in London - † October 9, 2013 ) was a British peer , politician and businessman .

life and career

Kindersley was born on August 18, 1929 to Hugh Kindersley, 2nd Baron Kindersley and Nancy Farnsworth Boyd, daughter of Dr. Geoffrey Boyd was born. He had an older sister, Patricia Nassau Kindersley (1922-2010).

He served in the Scots Guards and served in Malaya in 1949 . He reached the rank of lieutenant there . From 1957 to 1996 he was Director of London Assurance . At Witan Investment Co Ltd , Kindersley was a director from 1958 to 1985. From 1959 to 1967 he was a director of the Steel Company of Wales . From 1960 to 1991 he held this position with Lazard Bros and Co Ltd , from 1963 to 1968 with Marconi , with the Sun Alliance & London Insurance Group from 1965 to 1996, from 1966 to 1968 with English Electric and from 1968 to 1970 with the GEC Ltd .

He was Director of British Match Corporation Ltd from 1969 to 1973, Swedish Match Co from 1973 to 1985 , Maersk Co Ltd from 1986 to 2001 and Maersk India from 1990 to 2001 . He was chairman ( chairman ) of the Commonwealth Development Corporation from 1980 From 1990 to 2000 he headed the to 1989. Siam Selective Growth Trust . He was Chairman of the Brent Walker Group plc from 1991 to 1992.

From 1975 to 1980 he was Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD). In the Export Group for the Constructional Industries Kindersley was 1961-1985 financial advisor ( Financial Advisor ). From 1976 to 1978 he was chairman of the British Bankers' Association . From 1976 to 1986 he was President of the Anglo-Taiwan Trade Committee . Most recently he was a member of the Institute Intelligence d'Eac .

He was a member of the Hereditary Peerage Association .

Membership in the House of Lords

When his father died in 1976, Kindersley inherited his title of Baron Kindersley and the then associated seat in the House of Lords . There he sat as a crossbencher . He gave his inaugural address on July 26, 1982 on the subject of economic policy.

He spoke up sporadically until the mid-1990s. He spoke on the subjects of complementary medicine, the Osteopaths Bill [HL] , several times on the Housing and Urban Development Bill and most recently on June 5, 1995 on the Commonwealth Development Corporation (No. 2) Bill [HL] .

  • 1997/1998 session: 8 days (out of 228)

He lost his seat through the House of Lords Act 1999 . He did not run for election for one of the remaining seats.

family

Kindersley married Venice Marigold Hill (* 1940) on September 4, 1954, the daughter of Lord Arthur Francis Henry Hill and Ishabel Wilhelmina Sheila MacDougall. In 1989 they got divorced. In the same year he married Patricia Norman, daughter of Brigadier Hugh Norman.

The first marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter. The second oldest son died in 1991. His oldest son Rupert (* 1955) succeeded him in 2013 as Baron Kindersley.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KINDERSLEY
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Robert Hugh Molesworth Kindersley, 3rd Baron Kindersley on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ MEMBERSHIP LIST Hereditary Peerage Association publication ; Retrieved February 3, 2013
  4. ↑ House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections website Election Demon , accessed January 3, 2013
predecessor Office successor
Hugh Kindersley Baron Kindersley
1976-2013 		Rupert Kindersley
personal data
SURNAME Kindersley, Robert, 3rd Baron Kindersley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kindersley, Robert Hugh Molesworth, 3rd Baron Kindersley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer, businessman and politician (non-party)
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2013