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The Lord Northbrook | |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
| as a Hereditary peer 4 December 1990 –11 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | The 5th Baron Northbrook |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| as an Elected Hereditary Peer 11 November 1999 | |
| Election | 1999 |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 February 1954 |
| Party | Conservative |
Francis Thomas Baring,6th Baron Northbrook (born 21 February 1954),is a British peer and Conservative politician. [1]
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The son of Francis Baring,5th Baron Northbrook,and Rowena Margaret Manning,Northbrook was educated at Winchester College, [2] and took a BA in history at the University of Bristol. In 1976 he joined Dixon Wilson &Co as a trainee chartered accountant. In 1981 he became a credit analyst at Baring Brothers &Co. [2] In 1983,he moved into Baring Investment Management as an investment analyst. In 1985 he moved to Baring's Private Client Department. He became a Senior Investment Manager at Taylor Young Investment in 1990,and at Smith and Williamson Securities in 1993. He co-founded Mars Asset Management in 1996.
Lord Northbrook took his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father in 1990. He is now one of the 92 hereditary peers who remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act of 1999. He has since resisted further reform of the Lords,tabling amendments to a draft bill to abolish by-elections for hereditary peers,proposed by Lord Grocott in 2018. [3] Lord Northbrook sits on the Conservative benches and was an Opposition Whip in the House of Lords from 1999 to 2000. He speaks on treasury,constitutional,and agricultural matters.
He is a founding trustee of the Fortune Forum Charity which in its first year raised over £1 million for Global Poverty,Global Health,and Climate Change Charities.
He is a member of the advisory board of the Iman Foundation which aims to promote dialogue to strengthen international understanding and co-existence through the exchange of ideas,people,culture and religion.
