Jennifer Jane Forwood, 11th Baroness Arlington (born 7 May 1939 in London, ''née'' Nelson), is the daughter of General Sir John Nelson (died 1993) and Lady Margaret Jane Fitzroy (died 1995), sister of the 9th Duke of Grafton.

Life

Educated at Downham School for Girls,

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(now Down Hall), on 8 December 1965, she married

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Rodney Simon Dudley Forwood (died 1999), a younger son of Sir Dudley Forwood, 3rd Baronet. They have two sons: *Hon. Patrick John Dudley Forwood (b. 23 April 1967),

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to the title; *Hon. James Roland Nelson Forwood (b. 16 March 1969)

Peerage title claim

In May 1999, she succeeded as Baroness Arlington when the abeyance of the Arlington barony was terminated. Under the provisions of the

Peerage Act 1963 The Peerage Act 1963 (c. 48) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permits women peeresses and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords and allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be disclaimed. Backgro ...

, she took her seat in the

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on 27 May 1999, and remained in the House until 11 November 1999 when the

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took effect. She made her only speech the week after the death of her husband, who had helped her to prepare it, on 18 October 1999 in a series of questions to the Transport Minister in the Lords, on the subject of speeding. Lady Arlington, after having succeeded in claiming her ancestral title out of abeyance in her favour, was reminded with tongue-in-cheek by the Labour hereditary peer, Lord Berkeley (also ''cr.'' Lord Gueterbock in 2000), that she was now well prepared to petition for the restoration of the ancient titles of

Earl of Arlington Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. The title originates in the Old English word ''eorl'', meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form '' jarl'', and meant "chieftain", particula ...

and/or Viscount Thetford in her favour, being one of the four co-heirs to those titles. Hers was the last barony created by

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to be brought out of abeyance while hereditary peers had an automatic right to attend the House of Lords. Arms of the Duke of Grafton

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Life

Peerage title claim

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