Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Freyberg | |
Office: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label: | as an elected hereditary peer |
Term Start: | 11 November 1999 |
1Blankname: | Election |
1Namedata: | 1999 |
Predecessor: | Seat established |
Term Label2: | as a hereditary peer |
Term Start2: | 7 March 1994 |
Term End2: | 11 November 1999 |
Predecessor2: | The 2nd Baron Freyberg |
Successor2: | Seat abolished |
Birth Date: | 15 December 1970 |
Party: | None (crossbencher) |
Alma Mater: | Camberwell College of Arts |
Valerian Bernard Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg (born 15 December 1970) is a British hereditary peer, who sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Freyberg was born on 15 December 1970 to Paul Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg and Ivry Perronelle Katharine (Guild). He studied at Camberwell College of Arts,[1] where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1994. He later studied fine art at the Slade School of Fine Art, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 2006.
He succeeded his father as Baron Freyberg in 1993. On 12 July 1994, he took his seat in the House of Lords as a hereditary peer, sitting as a non-political crossbencher.[2] He made his maiden speech on 24 January 1995.[3] He is one of the 92 hereditary peers elected (by other hereditary peers) to sit in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. He was a member of the Lord's Works of Art Committee from 23 November 1999 to 7 November 2002 Lords.[4]