Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes

Euan Michael Ross Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes (born 3 September 1937) is a British Conservative peer and politician and current deputy speaker of the House of Lords.

Lieutenant Commander The Right Honourable The Lord Geddes
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 December 2002
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 20 March 1975 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 2nd Baron Geddes
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Incumbent
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999
Election	1999
Preceded by	Seat established
Personal details
Born	(1937-09-03) 3 September 1937 (age 87)
Political party	Conservative
Spouses	Gillian Butler ​ ​ (m. 1966; died 1995)​ Susan Margaret Carter ​ ​ (after 1996)​
Education	Rugby School
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Harvard Business School

Early life and education

Geddes is 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 Rugby School, then an all-boys public school (i.e. an independent boarding school) in Warwickshire. He studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1961; as per tradition, his BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree. He was further educated at Harvard Business School in 1969.^[1]

Career

Military service

Geddes served in the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1958. On 3 September 1958, he transferred to the Supply Branch of the Royal Naval Reserve with the rank of sub lieutenant.^[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 3 September 1961,^[3] and to lieutenant-commander on 3 September 1969.^[4] He was placed on the retired list on 30 November 1971.^[5]

Civilian career

Geddes 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 Trinity College, London and since 2000 of Chrome Castle Ltd. He is further director of the Trinity College of Music.

House of Lords

He succeeded to his father's title, Baron Geddes, in 1975.

He is one of the ninety hereditary peers selected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. Since 2002, Lord Geddes has been a deputy speaker of the House of Lords.^[6]

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.

Coat of arms of Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes

Crest A Scots pine tree growing out of a mound all Proper. Escutcheon Azure three geds naiant Or on a chief of the last as many boars' heads couped Sable armed Argent langued Gules. Supporters On a compartment semé of sea-pinks two geds Proper. Motto Capta Majora[7]