John Bradbury, 3rd Baron Bradbury explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Bradbury
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Status:Lord Temporal
Term Label:Hereditary peerage
Term Start:1994
Predecessor:The 2nd Baron Bradbury
Term End:11 November 1999
Successor:Seat abolished by the
Birth Name:John Bradbury
Birth Date:17 March 1940
Children:2

John Bradbury, 3rd Baron Bradbury (17 March 1940 – 8 August 2023) was a British peer, the third Baron Bradbury. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1994 to 1999.

Early life

The grandson of John Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, he was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and the University of Bristol.[1] [2] He had a twin sister, the Hon. Elizabeth Joan Hansen (married to Warren Gustin Hansen), and a younger half-sister, the Hon. Anne Bradbury (married to Alastair James Ker-Lindsay).

Career

The majority of Bradbury’s career in marketing communications was spent at US advertising giant McCann-Erickson Worldwide, where he oversaw global client relationships including Unilever, Nestle, Bacardi-Martini and Reckitt & Benckiser, eventually joining the board in New York. He retired in 2000 but served as Chairman of the board of governors at Perrott Hill preparatory school in Dorset for over a decade.

In 1994, he succeeded his father John Bradbury, 2nd Baron Bradbury (1914–1994), in the House of Lords.[1]

Personal life

Bradbury married Susan Liddiard in 1968, and they have two sons.

John Bradbury died on 8 August 2023, at the age of 83.[3] Their elder son, John Timothy Bradbury, born 1973, succeeded to the peerage.[4]

As of 2023, the family seat was the Manor House, Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset.

References

Notes and References

  1. Burke's Peerage, vol. 1 (2003), p. 48.
  2. Who's Who 2003 (A. & C. Black, London, 2003), p. 241.
  3. https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/search/query?categoryId=102&searchProfile=notices&source=&page=1&size=25&view=list&showExtended=false&startRange=1&keywords=&firstDate=08%2F16%2F2023&lastDate=08%2F16%2F2023&ordering= Bradbury
  4. Peter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 698.