The Lord Berkeley | |
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 Lord Berkeley in 2019 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| as a hereditary peer 17 October 1992 – 11 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | The 17th Baroness Berkeley |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| as aLife Peer 19 April 2000 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1939-09-20)20 September 1939 (age 86) Sutton, Surrey, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | Marian Keyes |
| Relations | Earls of Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Eton College Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Civil engineer; parliamentarian |
| Website | www.parliament.uk |
Anthony Fitzhardinge Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley, Baron Gueterbock,OBE (born 20 September 1939), otherwise known asTony Berkeley, is a Britisharistocrat andLabour parliamentarian.
Holder of an ancientEnglishhereditary peeragetitle created in 1421, Lord Berkeley sits in theHouse of Lords by virtue of being created aLife Peer in 2000.
Berkeley is son ofthe Hon. Cynthia Ella Foley (1909–1991) andBrigadier Ernest Adolphus Leopold Gueterbock (1897-1984), of The Plough,Terrick,Buckinghamshire, late of theRoyal Engineers. His mother was the younger of the two daughters ofEva, 16th Baroness Berkeley; her elder sister Marysucceeded as17th Baroness Berkeley, and died unmarried in 1992.[1] The Güterbocks, ofJewish descent, originally hailed fromPrussia in formerEast Germany, before moving toBrandenburg to establish aBerlinbank,Güterbock Moritz & Co.
Berkeley's paternal grandfather, Alfred Güterbock (1845–1929), ofBowdon,Cheshire,[2] emigrated to England, and with his wife Anna (née Prüßmann; 1858–1928), had three other sons, includingSir Paul Gueterbock (1886–1954).[citation needed]
Gueterbock was educated atEton College, before going up toTrinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as aBA (proceedingMA). He then took a career in civil engineering withGeorge Wimpey plc as an engineer until 1985. For the next ten years he worked as an engineer forEurotunnel 1985–95.
Gueterbock inherited his maternal ancestors' ancient title ofBaron Berkeley in 1992, succeeding his auntMary Foley-Berkeley, 17th Baroness Berkeley. Lord Berkeley additionally becameBaron Gueterbock,ofCranford in theLondon Borough of Hillingdon, in 2000, but remains known inParliament as Lord Berkeley. Hislife peerage enables him to continue sitting as a Labour peer in the House of Lords, following the ejection of the vast majority of hereditary peers in 1999; he was not elected ahereditary representative peer.
Since his introduction to theHouse of Lords in 1992, Lord Berkeley has served as Opposition Spokesman for Transport 1996–97 and Opposition Whip 1996–97.[3] He is the Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group and has tabled many questions in theHouse of Lords on Transport policy, including about bicycles on trains.[4] Berkeley has also tabled questions about police conduct with regards tocivil liberties.[5][6] Berkeley queried restrictions on peers bringing guests into the House of Lords during PresidentBarack Obama's visit to London.[7]
Lord Berkeley served as Chairman of the Rail Freight Group, the industry representative body for the rail freight sector, and is elected as a board member of the European Rail Freight Association. He is also a Trustee ofPlymouth Marine Laboratory,[8] President of the UK Maritime Pilots' Association.[9]
Appointed anOBE in1989 "for services to the construction industry", Lord and Lady Berkeley divide their time between homes in London and Cornwall.
In 2019 Berkeley became Vice-Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing.[10] He was named as Co-Chairman when the group reconstituted in 2020.[11] All current and former members of the group have been subject to criticism from some campaigners on whistleblowing law reform, questioning their transparency and accountability, followingSir Norman Lamb's resignation from the group.[12]
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