The Lord Annaly | |
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 16 April 1991 –11 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | The 5th Baron Annaly |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Luke Richard White 29 June 1954 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Eton |
| Occupation | Army officer |
| Known for | Lord-in-Waiting |
Luke Richard White,6th Baron Annaly (born 1954),is a British hereditary peer and former Government Whip in the House of Lords,who sat on the Conservative benches.
The only son of the first-class cricketer,the 5th Baron Annaly,and Lady Marye Isabel Pepys (died 1958),eldest daughter of the 7th Earl of Cottenham,his parents divorced in 1956 when he was two.
Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,he later attended the Royal Agricultural College,Cirencester,receiving a Diploma in Rural Estate Management.
White joined the Royal Hussars becoming Lieutenant in 1974,and served in Northern Ireland.
Lord Annaly succeeded upon his father's death on 30 September 1990 as a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,a title created in 1863.
Lord Annaly married Caroline Nina Garnett (born 1960),younger daughter of Colonel Robert Hugh Garnett MBE and Elizabeth Ann Arthur,in 1983. They have four children,including an only son and heir apparent,Luke White (born 1990);their daughters are Lavinia (born 1987),Iona (born 1989) and Clemmie White (born 2001). [1]
After divorcing,the Lady Annaly married secondly,in 2015,Richard Bott FCA . [2]
Appointed a Lord-in-Waiting in 1994,Lord Annaly served as a Lords' Whip in the Conservative government of John Major with responsibility for the Home Office and Ministry of Defence. With the passage of the Act of 1999,Annaly along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. [3]
At pro-hunting demonstrations in September 2004 Annaly spoke to the BBC in favour of continuation of hunting,stating it is no longer an elitist activity;"I fear it is being done for good,old-fashioned misconceived ideas about the sort of people who go hunting. People have come from all over the country and all sections of society. It's no longer a privileged exclusive activity." [4]
From 2007 to 2011,Lord Annaly was councillor for the Astons &Heyfords ward of Cherwell District Council,representing the Conservatives and defeating the incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor. [5]
Lord Annaly serves on his local (ecclesiastical) Parochial Church Council [6] as Church Warden and is elected to the Anglican Oxford Deanery Synod.
An Officer of the Order of St John,he is a member of Marylebone Cricket Club,a Freeman of the Haberdashers' Company and a steward for the British Horseracing Authority at Wolverhampton,Warwick and Towcester racecourses.
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