John Robert Warrender, 2nd Baron Bruntisfield, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Military Cross Territorial Decoration was a Scottish soldier, farmer and Conservative politician.
Background
Warrender was born in Edinburgh. He was the eldest son of Sir Victor Warrender, 8th Baronet, and his first wife, Dorothy Rawson. His father served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1923 to 1942, when he was created 1st Baron Bruntisfield.
Education
Warrender studied at Eton College and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Royal Scots Greys.
Career
He stood 6 ft 4 in high, and was powerfully built. lieutenant was later rumoured that his actions could have merited a Victoria Cross. He served as adjutant of the regiment, and was an Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Madras from 1946 to 1948.
He became a farmer when he retired from the Army.
He was lieutenant colonel of the newly amalgamated North Somerset Yeomanry and 44th Royal Tank Regiment from 1957 to 1962, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1967. He later joined the Royal Company of Archers, and was a Brigadier from 1973 to 1985.
He received the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1963, and stood as the Conservative candidate for the safe Labour seat of Pontypridd in the 1964 general election, losing to the incumbent, Labour"s Arthur Pearson, by a wide margin. He became Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset in 1965.
He inherited the barony on the death of his father in 1993, but was excluded from the House of Lords by the House of Lords Acting 1999.
He was first married to (Ann) Moireen Campbell in 1948. She died in 1976, and he remarried, to Shirley Crawley (née Ross), in 1977. He died in Edinburgh.