- Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont
Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, OBE, MC, PC (born
5 December 1919 ) is a British politician.He was a Minister in the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1964 to 1970 and appointed to thePrivy Council in the former year. He also authored severalmilitary history books regarding various subjects, including theNapoleonic Wars .Having been created Baron Chalfont, of
Llantarnam in the County of Monmouthshire on 11 November 1964, hislife peerage is the most senior extant (since the death of Lord Shawcross in 2003), and Lord Chalfont is higher in the order of precedence than several hereditary barons whose inherited titles postdate his.He contributed an article on "The Strategic Defence Initiative" to the
Conservative Monday Club 's October 1985 Conservative Party Conference issue of their newspaper, "Right Ahead".Lord Chalfont is a former chairman of the Radio Authority which regulated commercial radio in the UK until its role was absorbed byOfcom . Lord Chalfont set up the Institute for the Study of Terrorism withJillian Becker in 1985.He had been granted a permanent leave of absence which was terminated on
9 June 2008 .External links
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peersc3.htm Leigh Rayment's Peerage]
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