Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Ellenborough | |
Office: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status: | Lord Temporal |
Party: | Conservative Party |
Term Label: | as a hereditary peer |
Term Start: | 19 May 1945 |
Predecessor: | The 7th Baron Ellenborough |
Term End: | 11 November 1999 |
Successor: | Seat abolished |
Birth Name: | Richard Edward Cecil Law |
Birth Date: | 14 January 1926 |
Richard Edward Cecil Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough (14 January 1926 – 7 June 2013), was hereditary peer and a member of the House of Lords.
Law was educated at Eton College. He became Lord Ellenborough and entered the House of Lords upon the death of his father Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough, in 1945, at the young age of 19. He attended the House of Lords regularly, sitting as a Conservative peer, until 1999.
He was a director of Towry Law Group between 1958 and 1994 and President of the National Union of Ratepayers Association between 1960 and 1990.[1]
Law married Rachel Mary Hedley in 1953. They had three sons:
Lord Ellenborough died in 2013.[1]