Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes
Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes, of Shotesham in the County of Norfolk GCB GCVO QSO PC ( * December 11, 1941 ) is a British business manager, who was between 1990 and 1999 private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II and since 1999 as a Life Peer Member of the House of Lords.
Life
Ascent to the private secretary to the Queen and Awards
After schooling Fellowes made 1960-1963 military service in the Scots Guards and was last promoted to lieutenant. He then worked in the private sector and most recently from 1968 to 1977 director of the broker - financial services company Allen Harvey & Ross.
Following 1977 he joined the Secretariat of Queen Elizabeth II and was first assistant private secretary to Philip Moore, and between 1986 and 1990 deputy private secretary William Heseltine, who he succeeded in 1990 as a successor Heseltine itself was private secretary to the Queen and this office exerted to 1999. Successor as private secretary to the Queen was then Robert Janvrin.
During his long career he has won several awards and was first Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in 1982 and 1987 Companion of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Royal and 1989 Victorian Order. Henceforth he led the suffix " Sir " and was also in 1990 Privy Councillor and Knight 1991 Commander of the Order of the Bath. Recently he was awarded the Grand Cross in 1998 at the Royal Victorian Order and the Order of the Bath in 1998, before he was finally awarded the Queen's Service Order 1999.
Upper House Member and functions in the private sector
Fellowes, who with Jane Spencer, the elder sister of the later Princess Diana, married and also a cousin of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, since 1978, has been after completion of his work as a royal private secretary by Letters Patent of 12 July 1999 collected as a life peer with the title Baron Fellowes, of Shotesham in the County of Norfolk in the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the House of Lords he belongs to the group of so-called Cross Bencher.
In the following years he again took over duties in the private sector and was among other things, Chairman of Barclays Private Bank and from 1999 to 2010 Member of the Supervisory Board of the brewing company SABMiller. In addition, he was active since 2001 as a Trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, of which he is chairman since 2009, and from 2001 to 2008 as Chairman of the Prison Reform Trust. He also 1999-2010 Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, between 2003 and 2010 the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, and from 2004 to 2012 as chairman of the Voices Foundation was.
Lord Fellowes, a member of the Livery Company the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Goodenough College is since 2006 also acts as Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth Education Trust, since 2007 as a board member of the British Library, since 2009 as a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation and since 2010 as a member of the Council of the King Edward VII Hospital Sister Agnes.