Charles Cathcart, 7th Earl Cathcart

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Vivien Clare Skinner
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27 July 1999 11 November 1999
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Alma mater Eton College

Charles Alan Andrew Cathcart, the 7th Earl Cathcart (born 30 November 1952), styled Lord Greenock until 1999, is a Scottish peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords and Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Cathcart. [1]

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Early life

Cathcart was born on 30 November 1952. He is the only son of Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart and the former Rosemary Clare Marie Gabrielle Smyth-Osborne. After his mother's death, his father married Marie, Lady Weldon. [2] [3]

Cathcart was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Berkshire. Having attended the Mons Officer Cadet School, he was commissioned in the Scots Guards, British Army, as a second lieutenant on 5 August 1972. [4] [2] On 2 March 1975, he was moved to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, thereby ending his period of active service. [5] He ceased to belong to the reserve on 5 August 1980. [6]

Career

Lord Cathcart was an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He succeeded to the title Earl Cathcart upon the death of his father, Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, in 1999. [2]

Parliamentary career

In 2007 he was elected as one of the 92 remaining hereditary peers, [7] replacing The Lord Mowbray. In April 2019, he opposed an extension to the Article 50 process, stating that "every English and Welsh region outside the M25 would be happy to leave the EU without a deal if no agreement has been reached by the end of next week." [8]

Personal life

In 1981 he married Vivien Clare Skinner; she is an interior decorator under the name Vivien Greenock. [9] Together, they have two children: [2]

Descendants

Through his daughter, Lady Laura, he is a grandfather of Cosima Cash (born 2015) and Rex William Charles Cash (born 2017). [2]

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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl Cathcart
1999–present
Member of the House of Lords
(1999–1999)
Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Alan Cathcart, Lord Greenock
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
2007–present
Incumbent