David Garro Trefgarne,2nd Baron Trefgarne (born 31 March 1941),is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the longest-serving member of the House of Lords.
Trefgarne was a qualified commercial pilot. Immediately prior to Thatcher's election victory he had been working as a First Officer on the Handley Page Dart Herald for British Island Airways,which company had provided her with a personal jet during the election campaign. After the election he resigned from his flying job to join the government.[citation needed]
Lord Trefgarne is still a member of the House of Lords as one of the ninety hereditary peers elected by their colleagues to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999. According to the Electoral Reform Society,he has since blocked further reform of the Lords,tabling 'wrecking' amendments to a draft Bill to abolish by-elections for hereditary peers,proposed by Lord Grocott in 2018.[1]
Italics in entries mean the titleholder also holds a previously listed barony of greater precedence. ^* Also a Lord in the Peerage of Scotland, ^• Also a Baron in the Peerage of Ireland
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