The Lord Colgrain | |
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 Official parliamentary portrait, 2023 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Elected Hereditary Peer 27 March 2017 | |
| By-election | 27 March 2017 |
| Preceded by | The 3rd Baron Lyell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell 16 September 1951 Sevenoaks,Kent,England |
| Party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Annabel Warrender (m. 1979) |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Trinity College,Cambridge |
Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell,4th Baron Colgrain,DL (born 16 September 1951),is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.
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After attending Eton College,he went up to read English at Trinity College,Cambridge,graduating as MA. [1] Starting his career in the City with J Henry Schroder Wagg,he joined the Welbeck Group as a financial services headhunter in 1985. Taken over by the Whitney Group 1991,he was promoted Managing Director,CEO becoming its Vice-President (Europe) in 1999. [2] Since 2008,he has been a partner running the Campbell family estate in the Weald of Kent [3] and served as High Sheriff of Kent for 2013/14,before being appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent in 2017. [4]
Lord Colgrain was elected to sit in the Upper House at a whole House by-election in March 2017, [5] in place of Lord Lyell who died on 11 January 2017. [6]
