Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, Baron Kerr of Monteviot, (7 July 1945 – 1 October 2024), commonly known as Michael Ancram, was a British politician and peer who served as
Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2005. He was formerly styled Earl of Ancram until he inherited
the marquessate in 2004, upon the death of his father.
Born in London and educated at
Ampleforth College, Ancram studied History at
Christ Church, Oxford
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, and read Law at the
University of Edinburgh
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. After graduating from Edinburgh, he was called to the
Scottish Bar and practised as an
advocate
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before entering politics. He unsuccessfully contested
West Lothian
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in
1970
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, but was elected as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Berwick and East Lothian at the
February 1974 general election and served until he lost the seat in
the election held in October of that year. He re-entered Parliament in
1979
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, representing
Edinburgh South until his defeat in
1987
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. During this time, he served as a minister at the
Scotland Office
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in
Margaret Thatcher
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's government.
After being elected to represent
Devizes
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at the
1992 general election, Ancram served at the
Northern Ireland Office
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in
John Major
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's government. When Major was defeated at the
1997 general election, the Conservatives entered opposition and Ancram became
Chairman of the Conservative Party
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When the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives are ...
under
William Hague
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in 1998, having previously covered constitutional affairs in the
Shadow Cabinet. This was followed by a period as deputy party leader under
Iain Duncan Smith
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and
Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposi ...
, during which time he served in the Shadow Cabinet as
shadow foreign secretary
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and
shadow defence secretary respectively.
Early life and career
Ancram was born in London and is the elder son and second child of
Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, and his wife
Antonella.
He was educated at
Ampleforth College in
North Yorkshire
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. He graduated as a
Bachelor of Arts
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in History from
Christ Church, Oxford
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, in 1966, later by convention converted to a
Master of Arts
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.
While at Oxford, he was a member of the
Bullingdon Club. In 1968, he gained a
Bachelor of Laws
A Bachelor of Laws (; LLB) is an undergraduate law degree offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and serves as the first professional qualification for legal practitioners. This degree requires the study of core legal subje ...
(LLB) degree from the
University of Edinburgh
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.
He was called to the
Scottish Bar in 1970 and began to practise as an advocate.
Political career
Member of Parliament
Ancram unsuccessfully contested the
West Lothian
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parliamentary seat in
1970
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. He was first elected to
Parliament
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in the
February 1974 general election, when he contested and won the seat of
Berwick and East Lothian, but lost the seat in the
October election of the same year. After losing his seat, he again took up legal practice.
Ancram re-entered Parliament at the
1979 election as the Member of Parliament for
Edinburgh South, beating future Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
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. He was a member of the
House of Commons
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Energy
Select Committee between 1979 and 1983, and Chairman of the
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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from 1980 to 1983. He was
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the
Scottish Office
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with responsibility for
Home Affairs,
Housing
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, Local Government, Rating Reform and the
Environment from 1983 until 1987. He lost his seat again at the
1987 general election, being one of several prominent Conservatives
defeated in Scotland in that contest.
After losing his seat in 1987, Ancram returned to Parliament at the
1992 general election representing
Devizes
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. He was a member of the
Public Accounts Committee and Chairman of the backbench
Constitutional Affairs Committee from 1992 until May 1993, when he was appointed
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the
Northern Ireland Office
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. He was promoted to
Minister of State
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at the Northern Ireland Office in January 1994, and was sworn as a
Privy Councillor in January 1996.
Shadow Cabinet and failed leadership bid
Following the Conservatives' defeat at the
1997 election, Ancram served in the
Shadow Cabinet as
Shadow Constitutional Affairs Spokesperson from June 1997 to June 1998. He then served as
Chairman of the Conservative Party
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When the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives are ...
from December 1998 to September 2001.
In 2001, he ran against
Iain Duncan Smith
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,
Michael Portillo
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,
Kenneth Clarke
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and
David Davis in
the election for the party leadership. In the first poll of Conservative MPs he and
David Davis were tied for last place, leading to a re-run in which Ancram was placed bottom. He was eliminated, and Davis withdrew. Both swung their support behind
Iain Duncan Smith
Sir George Iain Duncan Smith (born 9 April 1954), often referred to by his initials IDS, is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Le ...
, who went on to win, beating Clarke in the final vote of party members. Duncan Smith made Ancram Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party and
Shadow Foreign Secretary
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in September 2001. He remained in this position after
Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposi ...
took over in 2003.
In the reshuffle following the
2005 election, Ancram was moved to
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence but remained deputy leader. He stood down from the Shadow Cabinet in December 2005, following the election of
David Cameron
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as Conservative Party Leader. In January 2006 he was appointed to the
Intelligence and Security Committee, replacing
James Arbuthnot
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.
Later years as an MP
Ancram was a founding signatory in 2005 of the
Henry Jackson Society principles, advocating a proactive approach to the spread of
liberal democracy
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across the world, including when necessary by military intervention. On 21 April 2006 he became one of the first senior Conservative MPs to call for British troops to withdraw from
Iraq
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, saying it was effectively in a state of civil war and that "It is time now for us to get out of Iraq with dignity and honour while we still can."
In 2006, Ancram set up
Global Strategy Forum, a bi-partisan foreign affairs
think tank
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based in London.
From 2008 to 2013, Ancram was chair of foreign policy forum
Le Cercle
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.
Ancram was a founder member of the
Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.
On 11 August 2009, Ancram announced that he was to stand down as the MP for
Devizes
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at the
2010 general election due to heart problems. He retired when Parliament was dissolved on 12 April 2010; his successor as Conservative member for the Devizes constituency was
Claire Perry.
Personal life
Ancram married
Lady Jane Fitzalan-Howard, the fourth daughter of
the 16th Duke of Norfolk, who on 7 April 2017 succeeded as the 16th
Lady Herries of Terregles. They were both prominent
Roman Catholic
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s. She is a Patron of the Right to Life Trust and also a patroness of the
Royal Caledonian Ball. The couple had three daughters and two grandchildren:
*Sarah Margaret Kerr (born and died 13 June 1976)
*Lady Clare Therese Kerr (25 January 1979) married in August 2010
The Right Honourable
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Nick Hurd
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, son of
Lord Hurd of Westwell. Lady Clare is the heiress presumptive to her mother’s Scottish peerage. They have two children:
**Leila Rose Hurd (17 May 2012)
**Caspar Jamie Hurd (30 September 2014)
*Lady Mary Kerr (28 May 1981), who directed the award winning documentary ''Radioman'' (2012). She married Zackary Adler on 28 May 2016.
Ancram's younger sister, Lady Cecil Cameron
OBE, married
Donald Angus Cameron of Lochiel, the Chief of
Clan Cameron
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. Another sister, the former Lady Clare Kerr, is now Dowager Countess of Euston and mother of the
12th Duke of Grafton.
Ancram was a keen
country music
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fan and often played
acoustic guitar
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at Conservative Party conferences. He was a
knight
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The concept of a knighthood ...
of
Order of St John and
Order of St Lazarus; he was also made a
Freeman
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of
Gibraltar
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in 2010.
He was appointed a
Deputy lieutenant for
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale in 1990. He became a
Queen's Counsel
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(QC) in 1996.
A member of the
House of Lords
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from 2010, he was the only
marquess
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sitting in the chamber at the time of his death. Ancram was hereditary
Chief of the Scottish
Clan Kerr
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.
Death
Ancram died from a short illness on 1 October 2024, at the age of 79. He was succeeded by his brother, Ralph Kerr, as the 14th Marquess of Lothian.
Name and titles
Although his family name was Kerr, Michael Ancram was known from birth by the
courtesy title
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In some context ...
Earl of Ancram as elder son and
heir apparent
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of the
12th Marquess of Lothian. He is said to have dropped the use of this title in favour of plain ''Mr Michael Ancram'' after becoming a lawyer, supposedly because he believed it might confuse the jury if any judge were to have addressed him as "My Lord".
Ancram was known to many of his friends as ''Crumb'', a nickname attributed to a party in the sixties at which on arrival Ancram introduced himself as "Lord Ancram" and was duly announced as "Mr Norman Crumb".
Ancram became
Marquess of Lothian
Marquess of Lothian is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, which was created in 1701 for Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian, Robert Kerr, 4th Earl of Lothian. The Marquess of Lothian holds the subsidiary peerages of Earl of Lothian (created ...
upon his father's death in October 2004, but did not take up use of this title in public life whilst still sitting as an MP (although properly he should have ceased being styled by the courtesy title of ''Earl of Ancram''). The
House of Lords Act 1999
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meant that, on acceding to the peerage, he would have been disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons as
hereditary peer
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s no longer have an automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. Apart from
Irish peers, he was, after the
Viscount Thurso, and
Viscount Hailsham, the third person to have sat in the House of Commons while simultaneously being a hereditary peer.
Ancram was created a
life peer
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on 22 November 2010 as Baron Kerr of Monteviot, ''of
Monteviot in
Roxburghshire
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'', and was
introduced in the
House of Lords
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the same day; by custom, he was referred to by his senior title as ''The Marquess of Lothian'' during all parliamentary business and in other official records such as ''
Hansard
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''.
As the Kerr family titles cannot pass through the female line, his younger brother Lord Ralph Kerr succeeded to his titles following his death. His elder daughter is her mother's heir presumptive to be
Lady Herries of Terregles. Ancram was also one of the five co-heirs to the
barony of Butler,
abeyant since 1905. Though the most junior heir by
primogeniture
Primogeniture () is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn Legitimacy (family law), legitimate child to inheritance, inherit all or most of their parent's estate (law), estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some childre ...
, he held the strongest claim, as the other heirs had a lesser share to that
title
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. On his death, his share was subdivided between his two daughters (leaving six co-heirs, each of the last baron's three sisters now being represented by two co-heirs with 1/6 shares).
Arms
Notes
References
External links
*
Ask Aristotle: Michael Ancram MP Politics.guardian.co.uk. Accessed 23 November 2022.
The Public Whip – Michael Ancram MP: Voting record publicwhip.org.uk. Accessed 23 November 2022.
Michael Ancram profile BBC.co.uk. 17 October 2002.
Profile globalstrategyforum.org. Accessed 23 November 2022.
Profile''Debrett's People of Today''. Accessed 23 November 2022.
Profile burkespeerage.com. Accessed 23 November 2022.
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