Robert Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen

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Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen ( July 22, 1931 - July 9, 2014 ) was a British member of the House of Lords ( Liberal Democrat ) in the United Kingdom .

family

Robert Methuen was the third and youngest son of Anthony Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen and his wife Grace Durning, daughter of Sir Richard Durning Holt, 1st Baronet .

He married Mary Catherine Jane Hooper in 1958. One year after the marriage ended in divorce in 1993, he married Margrit Andrea Hadwiger. The first marriage resulted in two daughters. Since he had no male offspring, his cousin James Paul Archibald Methuen-Campbell (* 1952) inherited the title of Baron Methuen.

Life

He attended Shrewsbury School and then studied at Trinity College (Cambridge) . He completed his studies in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) as an engineer. After graduation, he worked as an engineer for Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company from 1957 to 1967 and then as a computer system engineer at IBM UK Ltd from 1968 to 1975 and for Rolls-Royce plc from 1975 to 1994 .

politics

After the death of his brother Anthony Methuen, 6th Baron Methuen in 1994 (the other brother Anthony Richard Paul Methuen had died at the age of eleven), he inherited the title of Baron Methuen and the seat in the House of Lords. In parliament he was a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee and other committees. He was one of 92 hereditary peers who were allowed to keep their parliamentary seat after the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corsham's Lord Robert Methuen, the 7th Baron Methuen, dies aged 82
  2. ^ Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Methuen, Robert, 7th Baron Methuen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Methuen, Robert Alexander Holt, 7th Baron Methuen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1931
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2014