Luke Richard White, 6th Baron Annaly (born 1953), is a British

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and former

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in the

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, who sat on the

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benches.

Background and education

The only son of the

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er, the 5th Baron Annaly, and Lady Marye Isabel Pepys (died 1958), eldest daughter of the 7th Earl of Cottenham, his parents divorced in 1956 when he was two. Educated at

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and the

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, he later attended the

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, receiving a

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in Rural Estate Management. White joined the

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becoming

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in 1974, and served in Northern Ireland. Lord Annaly succeeded upon his father's death on 30 September 1990 as a

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in the

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, a

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created in 1863.

Family

Lord Annaly married Caroline Nina Garnett (born 1960), younger daughter of Colonel Robert Hugh Garnett MBE and Elizabeth Ann Arthur, in 1983. They have four children, including an only son and

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, Luke White (born 1990); their daughters are Lavinia (born 1987), Iona (born 1989) and Clemmie White (born 2001). After divorcing, the Lady Annaly married secondly, in 2015, Richard Bott

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Politics

;House of Lords Appointed a

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in 1994, Lord Annaly served as a

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in the Conservative government of John Major with responsibility for the Home Office and

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. With the passage of the Act of 1999, Annaly along with almost all other

s lost his automatic right to sit in the

. At pro-hunting demonstrations in September 2004 Annaly spoke to the

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in favour of continuation of

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, stating it is no longer an elitist activity; "I fear it is being done for good, old-fashioned misconceived ideas about the sort of people who go hunting. People have come from all over the country and all sections of society. It's no longer a privileged exclusive activity." ;District Council From 2007 to 2011, Lord Annaly was

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for a single-member

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representing the

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, having ousted a

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Subsequent career

Lord Annaly serves on his local (

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