David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth

David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 16 February 1946) is a British hereditary peer, academic and elected Labour member of the House of Lords.

Hanworth was educated at Wellington College and has taken a Doctorate of Philosophy (DPhil) at the University of Sussex. He is currently Professor of Econometrics and Computational Statistics at the University of Leicester, where he lectures in Mathematical Statistics, Econometrics and Environmental Sciences.^[1] He has been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

The Hon Stephen Pollock succeeded to the title (of Hanworth) upon his father's death in 1996, and sat in the House of Lords until the passing of the House of Lords Act in 1999 removed his automatic right to a seat.

Hanworth did not stand as a candidate in the election by the Labour hereditary peers of 2 of their number to continue to sit after this Act came into force.^[2] He was unsuccessful in the by-election caused by the death of 2nd Lord Milner of Leeds in 2003. In 2011 he returned to the House after winning the by-election to replace 11th Lord Strabolgi.^[3][4]

He and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Lawrence Vambe MBE, live in London. They have two daughters, Cecile and Charlotte.

References

1. ^ "House of Lords By-election March 2011 - Candidature Statements". http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/holnotice-20110307-byelection.pdf. Retrieved 27 March 2011. 
2. ^ "United Kingdom Election Results - House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections (scroll down page to section headed 'Labour')". http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lords.html. Retrieved 27 March 2011. 
3. ^ "Results: Hereditary Peers’ By-election, March 2011". http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/hol-byelection-20110323.pdf. Retrieved 27 March 2011. 
4. ^ "The Economist - Democracy in action The House of Lords stages the oddest of elections". 24 March 2011. http://www.economist.com/node/18443539?story_id=18443539&fsrc=rss. Retrieved 27 March 2011. 

External links

• thePeerage.com
• Debrett's People of Today
• University of Leicester Staff Page

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by David Pollock	Viscount Hanworth 1996-Present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Pollock, Stephen
Alternative names	Lord Hanworth
Short description	Member of the House of Lords
Date of birth	16 February 1946
Place of birth
Date of death
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