The Right Honourable
The Viscount Hanworth
Official parliamentary portrait
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
23 October 1996 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 2nd Viscount Hanworth
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
30 January 2011
Preceded byThe 11th Baron Strabolgi
Personal details
Born
David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock

(1946-02-16) 16 February 1946 (age 77)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
SpouseElizabeth Vambe
Children2
Alma mater

David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 16 February 1946), is a British professor and a Labour elected hereditary peer.

Hanworth was educated at Wellington College and has taken a DPhil degree at the University of Sussex. He is currently Professor of Econometrics and Computational Statistics at the University of Leicester, where he lectures in Mathematical Statistics, Econometrics and Environmental Sciences.[1]

Background

A great-grandson of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, a former Master of the Rolls, Hanworth succeeded to the viscountcy upon his father's death in 1996 and took his seat in the House of Lords until the House of Lords Act in 1999 removed his automatic right to sit in Parliament. He chose not to stand in the election by Labour hereditary peers to select two of their number to remain in Parliament after this Act came into force.[2] Hanworth stood but was unsuccessful in the by-election caused by the death of Lord Milner in 2003. Willing to work in the Lords still, in 2011 he won the cross-house hereditary by-election to become one of fifteen 'deputy speakers', following the death of Lord Strabolgi, who was also Labour. He was therefore appointed/elected on the all hereditary-peer eligibility basis following a death of one of the 90 places which remain based on heredity.[3][4]

Personal life

In 1968, he married Elizabeth Liberty Vambe, daughter of writer and journalist Lawrence Vambe. They live in London and have two daughters:

As they have no sons, Lord Hanworth's titles are expected to pass to a nephew.

Arms

Coat of arms of David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth
Crest
A Boar passant quarterly Or and Vert pierced through the sinister shoulder with an Arrow proper
Escutcheon
Azure three Fleurs-de-lis within a Bordure engrailed Or on a Chief Ermine two Portcullises of the second
Supporters
On either side a Bear Or muzzled collared and chained Sable
Motto
Audacter Et Strenue (Boldly and strenuously) [6]

References

  1. ^ "House of Lords By-election March 2011 - Candidature Statements" (PDF). Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  2. ^ "United Kingdom Election Results - House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections (scroll down page to section headed 'Labour')". Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  3. ^ "Results: Hereditary Peers' By-election, March 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  4. ^ "The Economist - Democracy in action The House of Lords stages the oddest of elections". 24 March 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  5. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1770.
  6. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1973.

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Peerage of the United Kingdom Preceded byDavid Pollock Viscount Hanworth 1996–present Member of the House of Lords(1996–1999) IncumbentHeir presumptive:Harold Pollock Baron Hanworth 1996–present Baronetage of the United Kingdom Preceded byDavid Pollock Pollock baronets of Hanworth1996–present IncumbentHeir presumptive:Harold Pollock Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded byThe Lord Strabolgi Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lordsunder the House of Lords Act 1999 2011–present Incumbent
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