David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Viscount Hanworth
Office1:Member of the House of Lords
Status1:Lord Temporal
Term Label1:as a hereditary peer
Term Start1:23 October 1996
Predecessor1:The 2nd Viscount Hanworth
Term End1:11 November 1999
Successor1:Seat abolished
Term Label2:as an elected hereditary peer
Term Start2:30 January 2011
Predecessor2:The 11th Baron Strabolgi
Birth Name:David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock
Birth Date:16 February 1946
Nationality:British
Party:Labour
Spouse:Elizabeth Vambe
Children:2

David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 16 February 1946), is a British professor and a Labour elected hereditary peer.

Hanworth was educated at Wellington College and has taken a DPhil degree at the University of Sussex. He is currently Professor of Econometrics and Computational Statistics at the University of Leicester, where he lectures in Mathematical Statistics, Econometrics and Environmental Sciences.[1]

Background

A great-grandson of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, a former Master of the Rolls, Hanworth succeeded to the viscountcy upon his father's death in 1996 and took his seat in the House of Lords until the House of Lords Act in 1999 removed his automatic right to sit in Parliament. He chose not to stand in the election by Labour hereditary peers to select two of their number to remain in Parliament after this Act came into force.[2] Hanworth stood but was unsuccessful in the by-election caused by the death of Lord Milner in 2003. Willing to work in the Lords still, in 2011 he won the cross-house hereditary by-election to become one of fifteen 'deputy speakers', following the death of Lord Strabolgi, who was also Labour. He was therefore appointed/elected on the all hereditary-peer eligibility basis following a death of one of the 90 places which remain based on heredity.[3] [4]

Personal life

In 1968, he married Elizabeth Liberty Vambe, daughter of writer and journalist Lawrence Vambe. They live in London and have two daughters:

As they have no sons, Lord Hanworth's titles are expected to pass to a nephew.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: House of Lords By-election March 2011 - Candidature Statements. 27 March 2011.
  2. Web site: United Kingdom Election Results - House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections (scroll down page to section headed 'Labour'). 27 March 2011. 21 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130121193747/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lords.html. dead.
  3. Web site: Results: Hereditary Peers' By-election, March 2011. 27 March 2011.
  4. News: The Economist - Democracy in action The House of Lords stages the oddest of elections. 27 March 2011 . 24 March 2011.
  5. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1770.