The Earl of Liverpool | |
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Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
as a hereditary peer 23 October 1969 –11 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | The 4th Earl of Liverpool |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished [lower-alpha 1] |
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | Seat established [lower-alpha 1] |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 November 1944 |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouses | Lady Juliana Mary Alice Noel (m. 1970;div. 1994)Countess Marie-Ange Michel de Pierredon (m. 1995;div. 2001)Georgina Ann Lederman Rubin (m. 2002) |
Children | 2 |
Occupation | Businessman |
Edward Peter Bertram Savile Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool (born 14 November 1944), is an English Conservative politician and businessman. [1]
Liverpool is the posthumous son of Captain Peter George William Savile Foljambe (1919–1944), who was killed in World War II in September 1944, and the former Elizabeth Joan Flint. His paternal grandfather was the Hon. Bertram Foljambe, sixth son of Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool, the former Lord Steward of the Household to Edward VII. [2]
Foljambe was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University of Perugia.
In 1969, at the age of 24, he succeeded his great-uncle as Earl of Liverpool and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was one of the 90+ elected hereditary peers who remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits on the Conservative benches. [1]
He is a former managing director of Melbourns Brewery and director of hotel management company Hart Hambleton.[ citation needed ]
Lord Liverpool married three times: firstly, Lady Juliana Mary Alice Noel, daughter of Anthony Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough, and Mary Stourton, on 29 January 1970. Before they were divorced in 1994, they had two children: [2]
He married, secondly, Countess Marie-Ange Michel de Pierredon, daughter of Count Géraud Michel de Pierredon, on 26 May 1995. They were divorced in 2001. He married, thirdly, Georgina Ann Lederman (née Rubin) in 2002. [2]
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