Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes

Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes

Euan Michael Ross Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes (born 3 September 1937) is a British peer and politician.

The son of the 2nd Baron Geddes, he was educated in Rugby School, Warwickshire and in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1961 and with a Master of Arts. Geddes was further educated in the Harvard Business School in 1969. He succeeded to his father's title in 1975.

Geddes served in the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1958, and became a Lieutenant-Commander of the Royal Naval Reserve. 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 and is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999.

Lord Geddes has married twice, first to Gillian Butler in 1966 and, after her death in 1995, to Susan Margaret Hunter in 1996. He has two children by his first wife, one daughter and one son, his heir James George Neil Geddes.

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