Background
LENNOX-BOYD, Mark Alexander was born on May 4, 1943. Parents: the late Right Honourable Viscount Boyd of Merton.
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Mark Alexander Lennox-Boyd
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Education
Eton College; Christ Church College, Oxford University, Master of Arts Oriental Languages. Inner Temple 1968.
Career
Lennox-Boyd contested Brent South in October 1974, being defeated by Labour"s Laurie Pavitt. He was Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lonsdale from 1979 to 1983, and the (slightly renamed) Morecambe and Lunesdale from 1983 until his defeat by Labour"s Geraldine Smith in 1997. He served as Parliamentary private secretary to Secretary of State for Energy 1981-1983, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983-1984, Assistant government whip 1984-1986.
A Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty Treasury (Government whip) 1986-1988, Parliamentary private secretary to the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher 1988-1990, and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of state in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1990-1994.
He is a trustee of the Georgian Group, and was chairman between 2014 to 2015. He is a Patron of Prisoners Abroad, a charity that supports the welfare of Britons imprisoned overseas and their families, and Patron of the British Sundial Society.
He is a son of Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton. Lady Lennox-Boyd was born in Italy, but left to settle in England where she later undertook a course in Landscape Architecture at Thames Polytechnic, which went on to become part of the University of Greenwich.
Membership
48th United Kingdom Parliament. 49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament.
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Lennox-Boyd is a member of the Court of the Fishmongers" company, Prime Warden 1998-1999, and served as chairman of the Company"s Education and Grants committee 2010-2015.
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Spouse Arabella Lacloche, 1974. Children: one d.
