Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Russell of Liverpool
Office1:Member of the House of Lords
Status1:Lord Temporal
Term Label1:as a hereditary peer
Term Start1:8 April 1981
Term End1:11 November 1999
Predecessor1:2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool
Successor1:Seat abolished
Term Label2:as an elected hereditary peer
Term Start2:11 December 2014
1Blankname2:By-election
1Namedata2:10 December 2014
Predecessor2:3rd Viscount Allenby
Birth Name:Simon Gordon Jared Russell
Birth Date:30 August 1952
Party:Crossbench

Simon Gordon Jared Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 30 August 1952), is a British crossbench peer.

The paternal grandson of Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool, he was educated at Charterhouse School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and INSEAD.[1] His maternal grandfather was the Conservative MP Sir Arthur Howard. Russell is also the great-grandson of former British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.

Having lost his seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999, he returned as an elected hereditary peer at a by-election in December 2014.[2] He sits as a crossbencher.

Notes and References

  1. ‘RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015.
  2. Web site: Crossbench Hereditary Peers' By-Election, December 2014. 10 December 2014.