Lord Camoys became a member of the House in November 2023,after winning a hereditary peers' by-election to replace Lord Brougham and Vaux.[1] He was the last person to be elected as a Hereditary Peer prior to the suspension of hereditary peers by-elections on 25 July 2024. [2][3]
The first creation of Baron Camoys was in 1313 when Ralph de Camoys was summoned to Parliament by writ.
After graduation,Lord Camoys worked in London and Bristol for private equity firm 3i plc before joining the Foreign Office as a diplomat,where he worked on Afghanistan and Iran in the Middle East Department,in New Delhi and in London as leader of a counter-terrorism team. In 2009,he founded Ilex Partners International Limited,a mergers and acquisitions company focused on Asian markets,with Lord Rothschild.[6] He lived in China from 2010 to 2016.
In 2021,Lord Camoys co-founded Marlow Studios,a new $1bn 1.5m sq.ft technology,media and creative campus located in Marlow,South Buckinghamshire. [7]
He is a Trustee and Director of the Wormsley Estate,the Getty family private residence in South Buckinghamshire.[8]
He is a Member of the Livery of The Fishmongers Company.[9]
He is the UK Chairman of Nepal Nature Trust,a UK charity supporting nature conservation in Nepal,and a Member of the Governing Board of Trustees of Nepal’s National Trust for Nature Conservation.[10][11]
He is a member of the Thames and Chilterns Regional Committee of Historic Houses.
Italics in entries mean the titleholder also holds a previously listed barony of greater precedence ^* Also a Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland
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