Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Addington | |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status1: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label1: | as a hereditary peer |
Term Start1: | 17 June 1986 |
Term End1: | 11 November 1999 |
Predecessor1: | The 5th Baron Addington |
Successor1: | Seat abolished |
Term Label2: | as an elected hereditary peer |
Term Start2: | 11 November 1999 |
Predecessor2: | Seat established |
Birth Date: | 24 August 1963 |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Liberal Democrat |
Spouse: | Elizabeth Ann (née Morris) |
Father: | James Hubbard, 5th Baron Addington |
Alma Mater: | University of Aberdeen |
Occupation: | Politician |
Website: | www.libdems.org.uk |
Dominic Bryce Hubbard, 6th Baron Addington (born 24 August 1963), is a British Liberal Democrat politician, the president of the British Dyslexic Association[1] and the vice-president of the UK Sports Association.[2]
Addington was educated at The Hewett School, Norwich, before going up to the Aberdeen University,[3] graduating as M.A. in 1988.
He succeeded to the title of Baron Addington, of Addington, Co. Buckingham, at the death of his father, James Hubbard, 5th Baron Addington, a former British South Africa Police officer, in 1982. On taking up his seat at 22 he was the youngest serving peer in the House of Lords.[4]
Lord Addington was returned as one of the ninety elected representative hereditary peers in Parliament in 1999. He sits on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords and is party spokesperson for sport. He is currently the longest-serving Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. He is captain of the Commons and Lords Rugby and Football team, and has played in two Parliamentary World Cups competitions in 1994 and 1999.[5]
In 1999, Addington married Elizabeth Ann Morris, only daughter of Michael Morris, of Duxbury Park, Chorley, Lancashire. Lord and Lady Addington live in Norwich.[6]
The heir presumptive to the title is his younger brother, the Hon. Michael Hubbard (who by his wife Emmanuella née Ononye has a son, Oliver).