Edward Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool

Edward Peter Bertram Savile Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool (born 14 November 1944), is an English Conservative politician and businessman.[1]

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Liverpool
Member of the House of Lords
as a hereditary peer
23 October 1969 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 4th Earl of Liverpool
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
11 November 1999
Election1999
Preceded bySeat established
Personal details
Born (1944-11-14) 14 November 1944
Political partyConservative
Spouses
Lady Juliana Mary Alice Noel
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(m. 1970; div. 1994)​
    Countess Marie-Ange Michel de Pierredon
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    (m. 1995; div. 2001)​
      Georgina Ann Lederman Rubin
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      (m. 2002)​
      Children2
      OccupationBusinessman

      Early life

      Liverpool is the posthumous son of Captain Peter George William Savile Foljambe (1919–1944), who was killed in World War II in September 1944, and the former Elizabeth Joan Flint. His paternal grandfather was the Hon. Bertram Foljambe, sixth son of Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool, the former Lord Steward of the Household to Edward VII.[2]

      Foljambe was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University of Perugia.

      Career

      In 1969, at the age of 24, he succeeded his great-uncle as Earl of Liverpool and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was one of the 90+ elected hereditary peers who remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act of 1999, and sits on the Conservative benches.[1]

      He is a former managing director of Melbourns Brewery and director of hotel management company Hart Hambleton.

      Personal life

      Lord Liverpool married three times: firstly, Lady Juliana Mary Alice Noel, daughter of Anthony Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough, and Mary Stourton, on 29 January 1970. Before they were divorced in 1994, they had two children:[2]

      • Luke Foljambe, Viscount Hawkesbury (b. 25 March 1972)
      • Hon. Ralph Foljambe (b. 1974)

      He married, secondly, Countess Marie-Ange Michel de Pierredon, daughter of Count Géraud Michel de Pierredon, on 26 May 1995. They were divorced in 2001. He married, thirdly, Georgina Ann Lederman (née Rubin) in 2002.[2]

      Arms
      Coat of arms of Edward Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool
      Coronet
      A Coronet of an Earl
      Crest
      1st (of honourable augmentation granted Aug 1906): On a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a lion rampant of the first, charged on the shoulder with a Bezant, thereon an Eagle displayed Sable, and resting the dexter hind paw on a Plate charged with a Bend Azure, thereon three Garbs Or, and surmounted by an Escutcheon Argent charged with an Eagle displayed also Sable, charged on the breast with a Fleur-de-Lys also Or, the Lion crowned gold and supporting with the fore paws a Man-of-War's Church Pennant proper; 2nd: A Seaweed Rock proper, thereon an heraldic Sea Lion sejant Azure resting the dexter paw on an Escutcheon per fess wavy argent and azure, in chief a Cormorant Sable, beaked and legged, holding in the beak a Branch of Seaweed, called laver, inverted Vert (Liverpool), and in base a Hawk, wings elevated and addorsed Argent (Hawkesbury); 3rd: A Man's Leg unarmed, couped at the thigh, quarterly Or and Sable, spurred Gold
      Escutcheon
      Sable a Bend between six Escallops Or, and as an honourable augmentation (granted Aug 1906) on the bend in chief on an Escutcheon Vert a Key surmounted by a Baton in saltire Or
      Supporters
      On either side a Griffin, wings elevated Or, beaked, membered, ducally gorged, and on the wing three Fleur-de-Lys one and two all Azure, that on the dexter side charged on the breast with a Torteau thereon a Cross Crosslet fitchée Argent (the badge of Howard), and that on the sinister charged on the breast with a Pellet thereon a Stag's Head cabossed also Argent (the badge of Cavendish)
      Motto
      Over the 1st Crest: Bydd Ddiyagog; over the 2nd Crest: Demovres Ferme; over the 3rd Crest: Bee Fast; and under the arms: Soyes Ferme (Be steadfast)

      Notes

        References
        1. "Earl of Liverpool". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 12 June 2010. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
        2. "Liverpool, Earl of (UK, 1905)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
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