John David Clotworthy Whyte-Melville Foster Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene and 7th Viscount Ferrard (born 3 June 1940) is a British peer.

Life and career

John Skeffington succeeded his father,

John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene and 6th Viscount Ferrard DL (22 October 1914 – 27 December 1992) was a British politician and landowner. He was also Baron of Loughneagh (1660, Ireland), 6th Bar ...

, in 1992 and regularly attended the

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(where he sat under the title Baron Oriel, his Irish Viscountcies not entitling him to a seat) until the passage of the

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which ended the automatic right for hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. Lord Massereene stood unsuccessfully as a

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candidate in a House of Lords by-election in 2013. Educated at Millfield and the Institute Monte Rosa, he served in the

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regiment 1958–1961. He is a major landowner, holds various directorships, and is a stockbroker with M.D.Barnard & Co; member of the

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1961–1964, and from 1970 to the present. He married in 1970, to Ann Denise Rowlandson. The couple have two sons, including Charles Skeffington (his heir), and one daughter. Lord Massereene oversaw the sale of

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in 1996, the family's ancestral home in Kent; the family seat is now at High Northolme, Salton, North Yorkshire. Like his father, he is President of the

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, and was a patron of '' Right Now!'', a magazine edited by

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. He also participated on the council of

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and was a to ''The Sanity Petition'' ("Sanity" is an acronym for "Subjects Against the NIce TreatY")

Sources

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'' and '' Sunday Times'' online archives

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