Simon Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton explained

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.

Biography

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Woolton, Earl of (UK, 1956) . Cracoft's Peerage . Heraldic Media Limited . 2 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120316230121/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index745.htm . 16 March 2012.
  2. Web site: Our People: Simon Woolton . Quayle Munro.
  3. Web site: Judith Helen (née Roberts), Lady Birdwood . National Portrait Gallery.
  4. Web site: NEW BOATHOUSE CAPITAL LIMITED . Directors in the UK.
  5. http://www.quaylemunro.com/our-people/london/simon-woolton.html Simon Woolton, Chief Financial Officer