Alastair Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare

Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare ( born 2 May 1947) is a British peer and politician.

Life and career

Bruce was born the son of Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare and Maud Helen Sarah Dashwood.

He attended Eton College and then studied at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. From 1969 to 1991 he worked for IBM. In 1991 he moved to Bruce Naughton Wade, a management consulting firm, and became partners. Since 1999 he has served as a director of ProbusBNW.

Bruce inherited the title of the father after his death in January 2005.

In July 2009, he was elected as a Hereditary Peer in the House of Lords, as a successor to the recently deceased Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe. There he sits as a cross Bencher.

He is president of the Cynon Valley History Society. From 1994 to 2006 he served on the board of the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

Family

Bruce is married to Elizabeth Mary Culbert Foulkes since 1971 and has two children with her, Hector Morys Bruce Napier ( b. 1974 ) and Sarah Katherine Mary Bruce ( b. 1976 ).

Swell

  • Side of the Cynon Valley History Society
  • Biography on the House of Lords page
  • Aberdare, Baron ( Bruce ) (Baron UK 1873) in: Debrett 's Peerage & Baronetage 1995 London. . Debrett 's Peerage Limited, 1995. S. 4
  • Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Baron ( Aberdare )
  • Born in 1947
  • Briton
  • Man
  • Politicians ( 21st century)
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