Alastair Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain

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The Lord Colgrain
DL
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Official parliamentary portrait
Member of the House of Lords
Excepted Hereditary
Assumed office
27 March 2017
Preceded byLord Lyell
Personal details
Born
Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell

(1951-09-16) 16 September 1951 (age 70)
Political partyConservative
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain DL (born 16 September 1951) is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1973).[1] He was High Sheriff of Kent from 2013 to 2014 and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent in 2017.[2] His wife, Lady Colgrain, became Lord Lieutenant of Kent in 2020.[3]

He was elected to sit in the House at a whole House by-election in March 2017, in place of Lord Lyell who died January 2017.[4]

Coat of arms of Alastair Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain
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Crest
A boar’s head erect and erased Azure issuing from a wreath of myrtle leaved and flowered Proper.
Escutcheon
Gyronny of eight Or and Sable on a chief Azure a bezant between two crescents of the first.
Supporters
On the dexter side a horse Argent and on the sinister side a boar Azure.
Motto
Fac Et Spera [5]

References[]

  1. ^ ‘COLGRAIN’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
  2. ^ "Experience for Lord Colgrain". UK Parliament. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  3. ^ "The Lady Colgrain". The Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Hereditary peers' by-election, March 2017: result" (PDF). House of Lords. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  5. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
David Campbell
Baron Colgrain
2008–present
Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under of the House of Lords Act 1999
2017–present
Incumbent
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