Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes

British Conservative peer and politician

Lieutenant Commander The Right Honourable
The Lord Geddes
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 December 2002
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
20 March 1975 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 2nd Baron Geddes
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Incumbent
as an elected hereditary peer
11 November 1999
Election1999
Preceded bySeat established
Personal details
Born (1937-09-03) 3 September 1937 (age 87)
Political partyConservative
Spouses
Gillian Butler
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​
(m. 1966; died 1995)​
Susan Margaret Carter
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(after 1996)​
EducationRugby School
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Harvard Business School

Euan Michael Ross Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes (born 3 September 1937) is a British Conservative peer and politician and current deputy speaker of the House of Lords.

Early life and education

Geddes is the son of the 2nd Baron Geddes and the former Enid Mary Butler, only child of Clarence Henry Butler, of Tenterden.

He was educated at Rugby School, then an all-boys public school (i.e. an independent boarding school) in Warwickshire. He studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1961; as per tradition, his BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree. He was further educated at Harvard Business School in 1969.[1]

Career

Military service

Geddes served in the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1958. On 3 September 1958, he transferred to the Supply Branch of the Royal Naval Reserve with the rank of sub lieutenant.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 3 September 1961,[3] and to lieutenant-commander on 3 September 1969.[4] He was placed on the retired list on 30 November 1971.[5]

Civilian career

Geddes was development manager, P&O Bulk Shipping. He was deputy manager of P&O Asia (Hong Kong) between 1975 and 1977. Since 1992, he has been chair of the Trinity College, London and since 2000 of Chrome Castle Ltd. He is further director of the Trinity College of Music.

House of Lords

He succeeded to his father's title, Baron Geddes, in 1975.

He is one of the ninety hereditary peers selected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. Since 2002, Lord Geddes has been a deputy speaker of the House of Lords.[6]

Personal life

Lord Geddes has been married twice, first to Gillian Butler in 1966 and, after her death in 1995, to Susan Margaret Carter in 1996. He has two children by his first wife, one daughter and one son, his heir James George Neil Geddes.

Coat of arms of Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes
Crest
A Scots pine tree growing out of a mound all Proper.
Escutcheon
Azure three geds naiant Or on a chief of the last as many boars' heads couped Sable armed Argent langued Gules.
Supporters
On a compartment semé of sea-pinks two geds Proper.
Motto
Capta Majora[7]

References

  1. ^ "Geddes, 3rd Baron, (Euan Michael Ross Geddes) (born 3 Sept. 1937)". Who's Who 2024. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  2. ^ "No. 41936". The London Gazette. 22 January 1960. p. 614.
  3. ^ "No. 42846". The London Gazette. 30 November 1962. p. 9355.
  4. ^ "No. 44923". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 August 1969. p. 8764.
  5. ^ "No. 45552". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 December 1971. p. 14186.
  6. ^ "Contact information for Lord Geddes - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". members.parliament.uk. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  7. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

Literature

  • "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2007.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Ross Geddes
 Baron Geddes
1975–present
Member of the House of Lords
(1975–1999) 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. James Geddes
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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 Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
1999–present 		Incumbent
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