Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Cromwell | |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status1: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label1: | as a hereditary peer |
Term Start1: | 18 August 1982 |
Term End1: | 11 November 1999 |
Predecessor1: | The 6th Baron Cromwell |
Successor1: | Seat abolished |
Term Label2: | as an elected hereditary peer |
Term Start2: | 10 April 2014 |
Predecessor2: | The 2nd Baron Moran |
Birth Name: | Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley |
Birth Date: | 4 March 1960 |
Alma Mater: | Eton College Selwyn College, Cambridge |
Party: | crossbench |
Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell (born 4 March 1960), is a British hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords, sitting as a crossbencher.
He was educated at Eton College and Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Prior to the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed all but 92 excepted hereditary peers from the house, he was an active member of the House of Lords.[1] Lord Cromwell lost his seat due to the Act.
On 9 April 2014, he was elected to sit in the House of Lords at a crossbench hereditary peers' by-election, now making him one of the 92 excepted hereditary peers.[2] He sits in the Lords as Lord Cromwell.