Valerian Bernard Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg (born 15 December 1970) is a British

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, who sits in the

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as a

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Biography

Freyberg was born on 15 December 1970 to

Paul Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg Colonel Paul Richard Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg, (27 May 1923 – 26 May 1993) was a British soldier and peer. Born in Paddington, London, was the son of Lieutenant General Bernard Freyberg and his wife Barbara McLaren. Barbara was the wid ...

and Ivry Perronelle Katharine ( Guild). He studied at

Camberwell College of Arts Camberwell College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art and design university in London, England. The college offers further and higher education programmes, including postgraduate and PhD awards. ...

, where he graduated with a

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in 1994. He later studied

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at the

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, graduating with a

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(MA) degree in 2006. He succeeded his father as Baron Freyberg in 1993. On 12 July 1994, he took his seat in the House of Lords as a

, sitting as a non-political

. He made his

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on 24 January 1995. He is one of the 90 hereditary peers elected (by other hereditary peers) to sit in the

after the

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. He was a member of the Lords' Works of Art Committee from 23 November 1999 to 7 November 2002.

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* 1970 births Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Living people British conceptual artists English artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Crossbench hereditary peers Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 {{UK-baron-stub