Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux

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The Lord Brougham and Vaux
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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
14 February 1968
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 4th Lord Brougham and Vaux
Personal details
Born (1938-08-02) 2 August 1938 (age 83)
Political partyConservative
Alma materMillfield School
Northampton Institute of Agriculture

Michael John Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux, CBE (born 2 August 1938) is a British peer and a Member of the House of Lords.

Born the second son of the 4th Baron Brougham and Vaux, Brougham was educated at Millfield, Lycée Jaccard, Switzerland and the . On 20 July 1963, he married Olivia Susan Gray and they had one daughter, The Hon. Henrietta Louise (born 23 February 1965). Succeeding to his father's title in 1967, he also divorced his wife that year and married Catherine Jill Gulliver. They have one son, The Hon. Charles William Brougham (born 1971).

Lord Brougham has been deputy chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords, deputy speaker of the House of Lords since 1995 and is also currently vice-chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers. He was president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents from 1986 to 1989 (and has been vice-president since 1990), and has been president of Safety Groups UK since it replaced the National Health and Safety Groups Council, in 2005. He has also been chairman of the from 1989 to 1991 and has been chairman of the since 1992. In 1995, he was appointed CBE.

Arms[]

Coat of arms of Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux
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Crest
A dexter arm in armour embowed Proper the hand holding a lucy fessewise Argent and charged on the elbow with a rose Gules.
Escutcheon
Gules a chevron between three lucies hauriant Argent.
Supporters
Dexter a lion Vert armed and langued Gules gorged with a vaux collar checky Or and of the second, sinister a stag Argent attired and unguled Or holding in the mouth a rose Gules barbed and seeded Vert.
Motto
Pro Rege Lege Grege (For The King The Law And The People) [1]

References[]

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1921.

Sources[]

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Brougham and Vaux
1967–present
Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New office
Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under of the House of Lords Act 1999
1999–present
Incumbent


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