| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Rotherwick | |
| Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status1: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Label1: | as a hereditary peer |
| Term Start1: | 30 July 1996 |
| Term End1: | 11 November 1999 |
| Predecessor1: | The 2nd Baron Rotherwick |
| Successor1: | Seat abolished |
| Term Label2: | as an elected hereditary peer |
| Term Start2: | 11 November 1999 |
| Term End2: | 1 February 2022 [1] |
| 1Blankname2: | Election |
| 1Namedata2: | 1999 |
| Predecessor2: | Seat established |
| Successor2: | The 5th Viscount Camrose |
| Birth Name: | Herbert Robin Cayzer |
| Birth Date: | 12 March 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Tynley Hall |
| Residence: | Cornbury Park |
| Nationality: | English |
| Education: | Harrow School |
| Alma Mater: | Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Spouse: | Sara Jane McAlpine (divorced) Tania Jane Fox (divorced) |
| Children: | Herbert (Bertie), Henry (Alexander), Harriette, August (Gus), Tommy (deceased), Clementine |
| Parents: | Herbert Cayzer Sarah Jane Slade |
Herbert Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick (born 12 March 1954), is a British landowner and estate manager. He sat as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords for the Conservative Party, from 1996 until his retirement in 2022.[2]
Robin Cayzer was born on 12 March 1954. He is the son of Herbert Cayzer, 2nd Baron Rotherwick,[3] and Sarah Jane Slade, of the Slade baronets. He spent his early childhood at Bletchingdon Park, a Palladian country house in Oxfordshire.[4] When he was 13, the family moved to Cornbury Park, in the same county, where he still lives.
He attended Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was further educated at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, where he graduated with a Diploma in Agriculture (GDA) in 1982.
Between 1973 and 1976, Cayzer was Acting Captain of The Life Guards and between 1977 and 1983, of the Household Cavalry. He worked for Barings Bank from 1976 to 1978 and for Bristol Helicopters from 1978 to 1980.
A qualified pilot, he represented the Popular Flying Association as a member of the executive committee from 1997 to 2001, and as vice-chairman from 1999 to 2001. He is also president of the General Aviation Awareness Council and a director of the Light Aviation Association.[5]
In 1996, he succeeded to his father's peerage title, and took up his seat in Britain's upper chamber as a Conservative. The passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 saw him elected as one of the 92 hereditary peers to remain in their seats for life. His areas of interest are listed as agriculture, animals, food and rural affairs; aviation; defence; energy and environment.
In 2005, he became a Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust. He belongs to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Motorcycling.[6] He is also a Patron of the National Association for Bikers with a Disability.[7]
Since 2004, he has been board director of Cayzer Continuation PCC Ltd and since 2006, non-active chairman of Air Touring Ltd. According to his register of interests on the House of Lords website, he is a director of Cornbury Estates Company Limited and Cornbury Maintenance Company Ltd (both described as property companies) and of Bygone Engineering.[8] Cornbury Park has about 5,000 acres of land, including part of the old royal forest of Wychwood. Cayzer has developed business units for rental there, and hosts the Wilderness Festival music festival.[9]
Cayzer married Sara Jane McAlpine on 6 March 1982 and they were divorced in 1994.[10] They have three children. He married secondly Tania Fox[11] on 21 June 2000.
Children by his first wife:
Children by his second wife:
Lord Rotherwick succeeded to the Cayzer baronetcy of Gartmore on the death of his kinsman Sir James Arthur Cayzer, 5th Baronet, on 27 February 2012.