Professor Christopher Richard James Woodhouse, 6th Baron Terrington (born 20 September 1946), is a

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and Emeritus Professor of Adolescent Urology,

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. Terrington was born in 1946, the elder son of

Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, (11 May 1917 – 13 February 2001) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford from 1959 to 1966 and again from 1970 to 1974. He was also a visitin ...

, and Lady Davidema Katharine Cynthia Mary Millicent Bulwer-Lytton, a daughter of

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. He was educated at

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and

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Medical School. Throughout his academic career he was an avid

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, steering Winchester College,

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and

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crews. Terrington became a urological surgeon in 1970. He was senior registrar at the Institute of Urology from 1977 to 1981 and senior lecturer from 1981 until 1997. In the latter year he moved to

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as Reader in Adolescent Urology, and professor from 2006. He has been Clinical Director of Urology at the same institution since 2001. He was a consultant at St George's Hospital from 1985 to 1995 and has occupied the same position at the

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since 1981 as well as that of honorary consultant at

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since 1981. He became a Fellow of the

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in 1975. In addition, Terrington has been an honorary member of the Australasian Urological Association since 1999, Chairman of the

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since 2000 and President of Genito-Urinary Reconstructive Surgeons (USA) since 2002. He inherited his title when his father died in 2001. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as a

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hereditary peer in the House of Lords by-election held in May 2008.

Marriage and children

Terrington married

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Anna Margaret Philipps, the daughter of

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, on 27 February 1975. They have two children: * Hon. Jack Henry Lehmann Woodhouse (born 7 December 1978),

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to the barony. * Hon. Constance Margaret Davina Woodhouse (born 1 January 1982)

Publications

*With F. D. Thompson: ''Disorders of the Kidney and Urinary Tract'' (1987) *''Long-Term Paediatric Urology'' (1991) *With others: ''Management of Urological Emergencies'' (2004)

Arms

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Terrington, Christopher Woodhouse, 6th Baron 1946 births Living people Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom British urologists People educated at Winchester College Members of Leander Club British surgeons Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians