Gerard Collier, 5th Baron Monkswell explained

Gerard Collier, 5th Baron Monkswell
Birth Date:28 January 1947
Death Date:12 July 2020
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:27 July 1984
Term End:11 November 1999
Party:Labour
Alma Mater:Portsmouth University

Gerard Collier, 5th Baron Monkswell (28 January 1947  - 12 July 2020) was a British hereditary peer.[1]

Life

He was educated at Portsmouth University (BSc Mechanical Eng, 1971) and Thames Valley University.[2] He succeeded to the title Baron Monkswell in 1984, and was a Member of the House of Lords from 1985 to 1999. He was a Labour Party Member of Manchester City Council from 1989 to 1994.

Lord Monkswell was an unsuccessful candidate in by-elections to the House of Lords in 2003, 2005, and 2011.

He died on 12 July 2020 at the age of 73.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lord knows that I don't need the title. Manchester Evening News. 29 March 2007 . 17 October 2014.
  2. ‘MONKSWELL’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  3. https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/collier/4861047 The obituary notice of Gerard Collier