Euan Michael Ross Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes (born 3 September 1937) is a British

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peer and politician and current deputy speaker of the

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Early life

The son of the 2nd Baron Geddes and the former Enid Mary Butler, only child of Clarence Henry Butler, of Tenterden. He was educated at

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and at

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of t ...

, where he graduated as a

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in history in 1961, later promoted to

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. He was further educated at

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in 1969. He succeeded to his father's title in 1975.

Career

Geddes served in the

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from 1956 to 1958, and became a

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in the

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. He was development manager, P&O Bulk Shipping. He was deputy manager of P&O Asia (Hong Kong) between 1975 and 1977. Since 1992, he has been chair of the

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and since 2000 of Chrome Castle Ltd. He is further director of the

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and is one of the ninety

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s selected to remain in the

after the

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. Since 2002 Lord Geddes has been a deputy speaker of the House of Lords.

Personal life

Lord Geddes has been married twice, first to Gillian Butler in 1966 and, after her death in 1995, to Susan Margaret Carter in 1996. He has two children by his first wife, one daughter and one son, his heir James George Neil Geddes.

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References

1937 births Living people People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Harvard Business School alumni Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act Royal Naval Reserve personnel {{UK-baron-stub