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Professor Christopher Richard James Woodhouse, 6th Baron Terrington (born 20 September 1946), is a British peer and Emeritus Professor of Adolescent Urology, University College London.[1]

Terrington was born in 1946, the elder son of Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, and Lady Davidema Katharine Cynthia Mary Millicent Bulwer-Lytton, a daughter of Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton. He was educated at Winchester College and Guy's Hospital Medical School. Throughout his academic career he was an avid coxswain, steering Winchester College, University of London and Leander Club crews.

Terrington became a urological surgeon in 1970. He was senior registrar at the Institute of Urology from 1977 to 1981 and senior lecturer from 1981 until 1997. In the latter year he moved to University College Hospital as Reader in Adolescent Urology, and professor from 2006. He has been Clinical Director of Urology at the same institution since 2001. He was a consultant at St George's Hospital from 1985 to 1995 but did most of his work at St James' Hospital SW12 until it was closed and has occupied the same position at the Royal Marsden Hospital since 1981 as well as that of honorary consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 1981.

He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1975.[2] In addition, Terrington has been an honorary member of the Australasian Urological Association since 1999, Chairman of the British Journal of Urology since 2000 and President of Genito-Urinary Reconstructive Surgeons (USA) since 2002.

He inherited his title when his father died in 2001. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as a crossbench hereditary peer in the House of Lords by-election held in May 2008.

Marriage and children

Terrington married Hon. Anna Margaret Philipps, the daughter of Hugo Philipps, 3rd Baron Milford, on 27 February 1975. They have two children:

Publications

Arms

Coat of arms of Christopher Woodhouse, 6th Baron Terrington
Crest
Issuant out of a wreath of roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper a demi-woodman also Proper supporting in the dexter hand an axe Or.
Escutcheon
Per fess Or and Azure a hurst of oak trees issuant in chief Proper and two bars wavy in base Argent.
Supporters
On either side an Airedale terrier Proper gorged with a ducal coronet Or.
Motto
Labor Omnia Vincit[3]

References

  1. ^ "Christopher Woodhouse". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  2. ^ "Christopher Woodhouse". PracticeUpdate. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1956.
Peerage of the United Kingdom Preceded byMontague Woodhouse Baron Terrington 2001–present IncumbentHeir apparent:Hon. Jack Woodhouse


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