John Monson, 11th Baron Monson explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Monson
Office1:Member of the House of Lords
Status1:Lord Temporal
Term Label1:as a hereditary peer
Term Start1:13 March 1961
Term End1:11 November 1999
Predecessor1:The 10th Baron Monson
Successor1:Seat abolished
Term Label2:as an elected hereditary peer
Term Start2:11 November 1999
Term End2:12 February 2011
Predecessor2:Seat established
Successor2:The 5th Earl of Lytton
Birth Date:3 May 1932
Party:Crossbench
Occupation:Politician and peer

John Monson, 11th Baron Monson (3 May 1932 – 12 February 2011), was a British hereditary peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords. He was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. He was a civil liberties campaigner and president of the Society for Individual Freedom.

Background

The son of John Monson, 10th Baron Monson, and Bettie Northrup Powell, he was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1954. In 1958 Monson succeeded to his father's barony.

Monson married Emma Devas, daughter of Anthony Devas and Nicolette Macnamara, on 2 April 1955.[1] The couple had three sons, including Nicholas who succeeded him. Nicholas's son, Alexander, died while in police custody in Kenya in May 2012;[2] according to a 2018 Kenyan court ruling, he was murdered by police.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lundy . Darryl . Person Page 5857 . Thepeerage.com . 2012-05-28.
  2. London Evening Standard, 24 May 2012.
  3. Web site: Judge rules police liable for death of British aristocrat Alexander Monson . Sky News.