Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara

The Right Honourable
The Lord Brabazon of Tara
PC DL
Chairman of Committees
In office
13 November 2002 – 1 May 2012
Preceded by The Lord Tordoff
Succeeded by The Lord Sewel
Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees
In office
20 June 2001 – 13 November 2002
Preceded by The Lord Tordoff
Succeeded by The Lord Grenfell
Minister of State for Transport
In office
23 July 1990 – 14 April 1992
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Michael Portillo
Succeeded by Roger Freeman
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office
24 July 1989 – 24 July 1990
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by The Lord Glenarthur
Succeeded by Tristan Garel-Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office
10 September 1986 – 23 July 1989
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by The Earl of Caithness
Succeeded by Robert Atkins (politician)
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
19 September 1984 – 10 September 1986
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by The Lord Lucas of Chilworth
Succeeded by The Lord Hesketh
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
11 November 1976
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by Derek Moore-Brabazon, 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
Personal details
Born (1946-12-20) 20 December 1946
Political party Conservative
Other political
affiliations		 Non-affiliated (2001–2012)

Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, PC DL (born 20 December 1946) is a British Conservative politician.

Early life

Lord Brabazon attended Harrow School. He married Harriet Frances de Courcy Hamilton in 1979, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He has worked in the London Stock Exchange and the freight industry.

Political career

House of Lords

He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative and from 1984 to 1986 was a House of Lords whip in Margaret Thatcher's government. He then became a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Transport, holding that post until 1989. Lord Brabazon was then made a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In early 1990, he returned to the Department of Transport as Minister of State, holding that post until leaving office at the 1992 general election.

House of Lords Act 1999

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Brabazon along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was however elected as one of the 92 elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.

In 2001, he was elected Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees, and as a result resigned the Conservative whip and became a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords.[1] This means that he is not associated with any party or with the Crossbenchers. He was the Chairman of Committees from 2002 to 2012, at which point he retook the Conservative whip.[2]

Lord Brabazon is a Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight.[3]

Styles of address

  • 1946–1964: Mr Ivon Moore-Brabazon
  • 1964–1974: The Hon. Ivon Moore-Brabazon
  • 1974–1993: The Rt Hon. The Lord Brabazon of Tara
  • 1993–2013: The Rt Hon. The Lord Brabazon of Tara DL
  • 2013–: The Rt Hon. The Lord Brabazon of Tara PC DL

Marriage and children

He married Harriet Frances Hamilton, daughter of Mervyn Peter de Courcy Hamilton, on 8 September 1979. They have one son and one daughter:

  • Hon. Benjamin Moore-Brabazon (b. 15 March 1983)
  • Hon. Anabel Mary Moore-Brabazon (b. 1985)

References

  1. ↑ "House of Lords: Breakdown of Lords by party strength and type of peerage". 30 April 2009. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
  2. ↑ "Lord Brabazon of Tara". DodOnline. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Tordoff		 Chairman of Committees, House of Lords
2002 – 2012		 Succeeded by
The Lord Sewel
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Derek Moore-Brabazon		 Baron Brabazon of Tara
1974–present		 Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Benjamin Moore-Brabazon
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