David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 16 February 1946), is a British professor and a
Labour elected hereditary peer.
Hanworth was educated at
Wellington College and has taken a
DPhil degree at the
University of Sussex. He is currently
Professor of
Econometrics and Computational Statistics at the
University of Leicester, where he lectures in Mathematical Statistics, Econometrics and Environmental Sciences.
Background
A great-grandson of
Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, a former
Master of the Rolls, Hanworth succeeded to the
viscountcy (and
baronetcy) upon his father's death in 1996 and took his seat in the
House of Lords until the
House of Lords Act in 1999 removed his automatic right to sit in
Parliament. He chose not to stand in the election by Labour hereditary peers to select two of their number to remain in Parliament after this Act came into force. Hanworth stood but was unsuccessful in the
by-election caused by the death of
Lord Milner in 2003. Willing to work in the Lords still, in 2011 he won the cross-house hereditary
by-election to become one of fifteen 'deputy speakers', following the death of
Lord Strabolgi
Baron Strabolgi (pronounced "Strabogie") is a title in the Peerage of England supposedly created in 1318 for Scottish lord David of Strathbogie, 10th Earl of Atholl. Despite lack of evidence supporting its existence, it was called out of abeya ...
, who was also Labour. He was therefore appointed/elected on the all hereditary-peer eligibility basis following a death of one of the 90 places which remain based on heredity.
Personal life
In 1968, he married Elizabeth Liberty, daughter of the writer and journalist
Lawrence Vambe
Lawrence Vambe (1917–2019) was a Zimbabwean writer and journalist.
Early life
Vambe was born in the village of Chishawasha in what was then Southern Rhodesia. His father, Joseph, was a peasant farmer; his mother died when he was a baby due to ...
MBE. They live in
London. The title is expected to pass to a nephew as they have two daughters:
*Hon. Cecile Pollock (born 1971)
*Hon. Charlotte Pollock (born 1973)
[Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1770]
Arms
References
External links
*
Debrett's People of Today
1946 births
Living people
English people of Scottish descent
People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire
Alumni of the University of Sussex
English economists
Academics of the University of Leicester
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers
Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act
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