Background
The son of Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne, and his wife, Katharine Louise Nickerson of Boston, Massachusetts, he succeeded to his father"s title in 1982.
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Christopher George
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He was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1959.
Career
He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Acting 1999. He is deputy chair of Toynbee Hall and was chair of Betteshanger Farms Limited until 1997. Since 1999, he has been chair of the Parenting Support Forum and governor of Wye College.
Since 2002, he has been also chair of the Stepney Children"s Fund.
He is a Deputy Lieutenant and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). Their garden at Elizabethan Northbourne Court near Deal in Kent, set within the standing former outbuildings (the manor house burned in the 18th century) and upon ancient terracing, nurtured for a century, is reputed one of the finest in England.
lieutenant is not generally open to the public.
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United Kingdom