Background
Lord Elton is the son of Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford and succeeded to the peerage on his father"s death in 1973.
Lord Elton is the son of Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford and succeeded to the peerage on his father"s death in 1973.
Eton College; New College.
On the formation of a Conservative government after the 1979 general election, Lord Elton was made a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office. In 1981 he was moved to the Department of Health and Social Security and in 1982 to the Home Office. In 1984 he was promoted to Minister of State within the Home Office.
In 1985, Lord Elton joined the Department of Environment, again as a Minister of State, but left the government the following year.
With the passage of the House of Lords Acting 1999, Lord Elton along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was however elected as one of the ninety elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.
Lord Elton was a candidate to become Lord Speaker in the elections that took place at the end of June 2006, but he was defeated, with Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman ultimately winning. Elton was married to Anne Frances Tilney, daughter of Brigadier Robert Adolphus George Tilney, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Defence Science Organisation, Territorial Decoration, on 18 September 1958.
2 March 1930 - 16 January 1934 - Rodney Elton 16 January 1934 - 18 April 1973 - Honorary Rodney Elton 18 April 1973 - Rt Honorary the Lord Elton.