Nicholas Ullswater

Education

He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career

He is one of very few peers to have succeeded a great-grandfather in a title. Lord Ullswater was made a Lord-in-Waiting (whip) in January 1989 by Margaret Thatcher before becoming Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Employment in July 1990. He was retained by John Major in that role until 1993, when he became Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords).

He remained in this role for a year when he became Minister of State for the Environment in 1994 (as well as a Privy Counsellor) in 1994, but he left the Government in a 1995 reshuffle.

In 1998, he became the Private Secretary to, Countess of Snowdon and continued in this office until her death in 2002. On 22 May 2006, Lord Ullswater was nominated for the newly created post of Lord Speaker, and in the election held on 28 June 2006 emerged in third place out of nine candidates.

His great-grandfather, James Lowther, served as Speaker of the House of Commons 1905–1921. 1942: Mr Nicholas Lowther

1942-1949: The Honorary Nicholas Lowther

1949-1994: The Rt Honorary The Viscount Ullswater

1992-2002: The Rt Honorary The Viscount Ullswater Personal Computer

2002-: The Rt Honorary The Viscount Ullswater LVO Personal Computer

Arms.

Achievements

• He was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in the special Honours List issued by the Queen after "s demise. But after the death of the Viscount of Oxfuird in January 2003, he won the all-house by-election, enabling him to return to the House of Lords.

Membership

As a member of a Royal Household he could not take part in partisan politics and did not seek to remain in the House of Lords when the House of Lords Acting 1999 was passed.