The Viscount Boyd of Merton | |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
| as a hereditary peer 8 March 1983 –11 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | The 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished [a] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Simon Donald Rupert Neville Lennox-Boyd 7 December 1939 |
| Political party | Crossbench |
Simon Donald Rupert Neville Lennox-Boyd,2nd Viscount Boyd of Merton (born 7 December 1939),is a British hereditary peer and former member of the House of Lords.
Lennox-Boyd was born in 1939,the eldest son of Alan Lennox-Boyd,1st Viscount Boyd of Merton and his wife Lady Patricia Guinness,daughter of Rupert Guinness,2nd Earl of Iveagh.
He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church,Oxford from which he graduated with a BA in 1962,subsequently promoted to MA in 1966.
Lennox-Boyd was deputy chairman of Arthur Guinness &Sons between 1981 and 1986.
He succeeded to the viscountcy and to a seat in the House of Lords upon his father's death in 1983. He lost his seat following the introduction of the House of Lords Act 1999.
Lennox-Boyd married Alice Mary Clive (born 24 March 1942) on 24 July 1962. She is the daughter of Major Meysey Clive and his wife,the writer Lady Mary Clive (née Pakenham) and the granddaughter of Thomas Pakenham,5th Earl of Longford. They have four children: [1]
Lord Boyd lived at Ince Castle in Cornwall until 2018,when it was sold.
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