Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux

The Right Honourable
The Lord Brougham and Vaux
The Lord Brougham and Vaux
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
14 February 1968
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by Victor Brougham, 4th Baron Brougham and Vaux
Personal details
Born 2 August 1938
Political party Conservative

Michael John Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux, CBE (born 2 August 1938) is a British peer and a Member of the House of Lords.

Born the eldest son of the 4th Baron Brougham and Vaux, Brougham was educated at Millfield, Lycée Jaccard, Switzerland and the Northampton Institute of Agriculture. On 20 July 1963, he married Olivia Susan Gray and they had one daughter, The Hon. Henrietta Louise (born 23 February 1965). Succeeding to his father's title in 1967, he also divorced his wife that year and married Catherine Jill Gulliver. They have one son, The Hon. Charles William Brougham (born 1971).

Lord Brougham has been Deputy Chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since 1995 and is also currently Vice-Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers. He is also keen on health and safety and outside Parliament, he was President of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents from 1986-89 (and has been Vice-President since 1990), and has been President of Safety Groups UK since it replaced the National Health and Safety Groups Council, in 2005. He has also been Chairman of the Tax Payers' Society from 1989–91 and has been Chairman of the European Secure Vehicle Alliance since 1992. In 1995, he was appointed CBE.

Ancestry

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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Victor Brougham		 Baron Brougham and Vaux
1967–present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent


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