Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Earl of Woolton | |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status1: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label1: | as a hereditary peer |
Term Start1: | 7 January 1969 |
Predecessor1: | The 2nd Earl of Woolton |
Term End1: | 11 November 1999 |
Successor1: | Seat abolished |
Birth Name: | Simon Frederick James Marquis |
Birth Date: | 24 May 1958 |
Occupation: | Businessman, peer |
Education: | Eton College St. Andrews University (MA, 1981) |
Children: | 3 |
Parents: | Roger Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton Josephine Gordon-Cumming |
Simon Frederick James Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton (born 24 May 1958), styled Viscount Walberton between 1964 and 1969, is a British peer and businessman.
He was a hereditary member of the House of Lords from 1979 until 1999.
Woolton is the son of Roger Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton, and his second wife, Josephine Gordon-Cumming,[1] now Countess Lloyd George of Dwyfor.
He graduated from St. Andrews University in 1981 with an MA degree in Economics and Modern History.[2] He married the Honourable Sophie Birdwood, daughter of the 3rd Baron Birdwood,[3] in 1987. They had three daughters before divorcing on 13 May 1997:
On 28 October 1999, Lord Woolton married Mary Carol Davidson. Davidson has two daughters from a previous marriage.
He was a director of New Boathouse Capital[4] and was Chief Financial Officer of Quayle Munro.[5]