Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Brabazon of Tara
Honorific-Suffix:PC DL
Office1:Chairman of Committees
Term Start1:13 November 2002
Term End1:1 May 2012
Predecessor1:The Lord Tordoff
Successor1:The Lord Sewel
Office2:Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees
Term Start2:20 June 2001
Term End2:13 November 2002
Predecessor2:The Lord Tordoff
Successor2:The Lord Grenfell
Office4:Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Primeminister4:Margaret Thatcher
Term Start4:24 July 1989
Term End4:14 July 1990
Predecessor4:The Lord Glenarthur
Successor4:The Earl of Caithness
Office3:Minister of State for Transport
Primeminister3:Margaret Thatcher
Term Start3:23 July 1990
Term End3:14 April 1992
Predecessor3:Michael Portillo
Successor3:The Earl of Caithness
Office5:Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
Primeminister5:Margaret Thatcher
Term Start5:10 September 1986
Term End5:23 July 1989
Predecessor5:The Earl of Caithness
Successor5:Robert Atkins
Office6:Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
Primeminister6:Margaret Thatcher
Term Start6:19 September 1984
Term End6:10 September 1986
Predecessor6:The Lord Lucas of Chilworth
Office7:Member of the House of Lords
Status7:Lord Temporal
Term Label7:as a hereditary peer
Term Start7:24 September 1976
Term End7:11 November 1999
Predecessor7:The 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
Successor7:Seat abolished
Term Label8:as an elected hereditary peer
Term Start8:11 November 1999
Term End8:28 April 2022 [1]
1Blankname8:Election
1Namedata8:1999
Predecessor8:Seat established
Successor8:The 4th Baron Remnant
Birthname:Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon
Birth Date:20 December 1946
Party:Conservative
Otherparty:Non-affiliated (2001–2012)

Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, (born 20 December 1946), is a British Conservative politician.

Early life

Lord Brabazon attended Harrow School. He married Harriet Frances de Courcy Hamilton in 1979, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He has worked in the London Stock Exchange and the freight industry.

Political career

House of Lords

He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative and from 1984 to 1986 was a House of Lords whip in Margaret Thatcher's government. He then became a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Transport, holding that post until 1989. Lord Brabazon was then made a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In early 1990, he returned to the Department of Transport as Minister of State, holding that post until leaving office at the 1992 general election.

House of Lords Act 1999

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Brabazon along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was, however, elected as one of the 90 elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.

In 2001, he was elected Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees, and as a result resigned the Conservative whip and became a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords.[2] This means that he is not associated with any party or with the Crossbenchers. He was the Chairman of Committees from 2002 to 2012, at which point he retook the Conservative whip.[3]

Lord Brabazon is a Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight.[4]

Marriage and children

He married Harriet Frances Hamilton, daughter of Mervyn Peter de Courcy Hamilton, on 8 September 1979. They have one son and one daughter:

Notes and References

  1. Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
  2. Web site: House of Lords: Breakdown of Lords by party strength and type of peerage . 12 May 2009 . 30 April 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080514004118/http://www.parliament.uk/directories/house_of_lords_information_office/analysis_by_composition.cfm . 14 May 2008 .
  3. Web site: Lord Brabazon of Tara . DodOnline . 8 January 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120307132036/http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26474&group=5&Page=Lord%20Brabazon%20of%20Tara%20:%20Political%20Biography . 7 March 2012 . dead .
  4. Web site: Vice Lord-Lieutenant and Deputy Lieutenants . 2010-09-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110612023550/http://www.iwight.com/living_here/lord_lieutenant/thevicel.asp . 12 June 2011 .
  5. Web site: Ben Moore-Brabazon . . 24 December 2020 . en.
  6. News: Levy . Danielle . We reveal Britain's Top 30 wealth managers under 30 . 24 December 2020 . Wealth Manager . 15 September 2011 . en.
  7. Web site: The Hon B.R. Moore-Brabazon and Miss M.C. Parish . . 24 December 2020.
  8. Web site: Anabel Mary Moore-Brabazon . . 24 December 2020.