Richard Edward Cecil Law, 8th

Baron Ellenborough Baron Ellenborough, of Ellenborough in the County of Cumberland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 April 1802 for the lawyer, judge and politician Sir Edward Law, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from ...

(14 January 1926 – 7 June 2013), was

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and a member of the

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. Law was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

. He became Lord Ellenborough and entered the House of Lords upon the death of his father

Henry Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough Major Henry Astell Law, 7th Baron Ellenborough, (11 July 1889 – 19 May 1945), was a member of the House of Lords. Law was educated at Eton College where he was in the Eton Shooting VIII and at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. On the death ...

, in 1945, at the young age of 19. He attended the House of Lords regularly, sitting as a

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peer, until 1999. He was a director of Towry Law Group between 1958 and 1994 and President of the National Union of Ratepayers Association between 1960 and 1990.Kidd, Charles, (editor). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (2015 edition), p. 419. Law married Rachel Mary Hedley in 1953. They had three sons: * Rupert Edward Henry Law, 9th Baron Ellenborough (born 1955) * Hon. Edmund Ivor Cecil Law (born 1956) * Hon. Charles Adrian Christian Towry Law (born 1960) Lord Ellenborough died in 2013.

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1926 births 2013 deaths Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers People educated at Eton College 8

Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' an ...

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