Charles Harold Stuart Low, 2nd Baron Aldington (born 22 June 1948), is a British peer, the son of

Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington Brigadier Toby Austin Richard William Low, 1st Baron Aldington, Baron Low, (25 May 1914 – 7 December 2000), known as Austin Richard William Low until he added "Toby" as a forename by deed poll on 10 July 1957, was a British Conservative Part ...

. He succeeded to the Barony on 7 December 2000.

Life

Lord Aldington, formerly Charles Low, was born in London in 1948. He was educated at

Winchester College Winchester College is an English Public school (United Kingdom), public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day school, day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It wa ...

New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...

(where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics), and at

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. He also attended the

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Unternehmer Gespraeche. His early career was with

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and Grindlays Bank in New York,

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and London. He worked for 28 years for

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. From 2002 to 2009, he was Chairman of Deutsche Bank London and Chairman of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity, following which he was a Senior Advisor for three years. He joined Deutsche Bank in 1986 and worked in Germany before joining the management of its London business in 1988. In 1997 he moved into a Corporate Finance role. He currently chairs the Finance Committee at the Ditchley Foundation. He was Chairman of Stramongate Ltd, on the Boards of LIBA, BBA, and the British German Chamber of Commerce, Deputy Chairman of the Royal Academy Trust, a Trustee of the Institute for Philanthropy, Vice President of the

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, a member of

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's Court of Benefactors and of the Business Advisory Council to the Said Business School, Chair of the New College Development Committee, and Chair of the European Vocational College. Aldington is married to Dr Regine von Csongrady-Schopf, an art historian, and they have three children, including a son and heir, the only heir to the barony, Philip Low.

References

1948 births Living people People educated at Winchester College Alumni of New College, Oxford 2 People from Bispham, Blackpool Sons of life peers {{UK-baron-stub