Gerard Collier, 5th Baron Monkswell (28 January 1947 – 12 July 2020) was a British hereditary peer.

Life

He was educated at

Portsmouth University The University of Portsmouth is a public university in Portsmouth, England. It is one of only four universities in the South East England, South East of England rated as Gold in the Government's Teaching Excellence Framework. With approximately 28 ...

(BSc Mechanical Eng, 1971) and Thames Valley University. He succeeded to the title

Baron Monkswell Baron Monkswell, of Monkswell in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Sir Robert Collier. His eldest son, the second Baron, served as Under-Secretary o ...

in 1984, and was a Member of the

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from 1985 to 1999. He was a Labour Party Member of

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from 1989 to 1994. Lord Monkswell was an unsuccessful candidate in

by-elections to the House of Lords Following the enactment of the House of Lords Act 1999, the number of hereditary peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords was reduced to ninety-two. Ninety of the first ninety-two were elected by all the hereditary peers before the passing of ...

in 2003, 2005, and 2011. He died on 12 July 2020 at the age of 73.The obituary notice of Gerard Collier
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References

1947 births 2020 deaths Alumni of the University of Portsmouth Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers {{UK-baron-stub