John Mervyn Manningham-Buller, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne (28 February 1932 – 25 June 2022) was a British peer and barrister.

Background and education

Lord Dilhorne was the son of

Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, (1 August 1905 – 7 September 1980), known as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt, from 1954 to 1962 and as The Lord Dilhorne from 1962 to 1964, was an English lawyer and Conservative po ...

, and Lady Mary Lindsay, daughter of

David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres, (10 October 1871 – 8 March 1940), styled Lord Balcarres or Lord Balniel between 1880 and 1913, was a British Conservative politician and art connoisseur. Back ...

. His sister is Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former head of

MI5 MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Gov ...

. He was educated at Eton and the

Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS or RMA Sandhurst), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is one of several military academies of the United Kingdom and is the British Army's initial officer training centre. It is located in the town o ...

. Dilhorne was 6 foot 9 inches tall.

Career

After service in the

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, Dilhorne was

called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

from the

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in 1979. He was Managing Director of Stewart Smith (LP&M) Ltd from 1970 to 1974 and Chairman of the Value Added Tax Tribunal from 1988 to 1995, a member of

Wiltshire County Council Wiltshire Council, known between 1889 and 2009 as Wiltshire County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Wiltshire in South West England, and has its headquarters at County Hall in Trowbridge. Since 2009 it has bee ...

, 1967 to 1970, of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Instruments, 1981 to 1988, of the JPC on Consolidation Bills, 1994–1999, and of the EC Select Committee (Law and Institutions), 1989–1992.

Marriage and children

Lord Dilhorne married, firstly, Gillian Stockwell, on 8 October 1955, and they were divorced in 1973. They had three children: * James Edward Manningham-Buller, 3rd Viscount Dilhorne (born 20 August 1956) *

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Mervyn Reginald Manningham-Buller (born 11 July 1962) * Hon Mary Louise Manningham-Buller (born 8 March 1970) Dilhorne married, secondly, Susannah Jane Eykyn, on 17 December 1981. She is a professor of clinical microbiology associated with

St Thomas' Hospital St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England. Administratively part of the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, together with Guy's Hospital, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospita ...

. The Dilhornes had homes in London and at Minterne Parva, near

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. Dilhorne died on 25 June 2022, at the age of 90, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his elder son, James.

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