Richard Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough

Richard Edward Cecil Law, 8th Baron Ellenborough (14 January 1926 – 7 June 2013), was hereditary peer and a member of the House of Lords.

The Lord Ellenborough
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
1945  11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 7th Baron Ellenborough
Succeeded bySeat abolished [lower-alpha 1]
Personal details
Born
Richard Edward Cecil Law

(1926-01-14)14 January 1926
Died7 June 2013(2013-06-07) (aged 87)
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Rachel Mary Hedley
(m. 1953)
Children
Parents

Law was educated at Eton College. He became Lord Ellenborough and entered the House of Lords upon the death of his father Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough, in 1945, at the young age of 19. He attended the House of Lords regularly, sitting as a Conservative peer, until 1999.[lower-alpha 1]

He was a director of Towry Law Group between 1958 and 1994 and President of the National Union of Ratepayers Association between 1960 and 1990.[1]

Law married Rachel Mary Hedley in 1953. They had three sons:

Lord Ellenborough died in 2013.[1]

Ancestry

Notes

  1. Seat abolished by the House of Lords Act 1999.

References

  1. Kidd, Charles, (editor). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2015 edition), p. 419.
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