Background
Robert Jocelyn Palmer (fifth child and third son of the 3rd Earl of Selborne) and the 11th Baroness Lucas and 7th Lady Dingwall.
Charter Accountants Lords minister
Robert Jocelyn Palmer (fifth child and third son of the 3rd Earl of Selborne) and the 11th Baroness Lucas and 7th Lady Dingwall.
Ralph Lucas attended Twyford School and Eton College. He studied physics at Balliol College, Oxford.
He is one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Acting 1999. He then took articles as a chartered accountant and worked at South. G. Warburg & Company Limited. from 1976–1988. On the death of his mother in 1991, he succeeded her as 12th Baron Lucas and 8th Lord Dingwall.
He is the current owner of The Good Schools Guide.
He was a Lord in Waiting (Government Whip in the House of Lords) during 1994-1997, and the shadow Lords minister for International Development during 1997-1998. Lewis Edward Palmer (born 7 December 1987).
Lord Lucas is on the Advisory Board of A.C. (before Christ) Grayling"s New College of the Humanities. He became a Fellow of Charter Accountants (Farm Credit Administration) in 1976 and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.