Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux

Michael John Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux, CBE (born 2 August 1938) is a British peer and a Member of the House of Lords.

The Right Honourable
The Lord Brougham and Vaux
Member of the House of Lords
as a hereditary peer
24 January 1968 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 4th Baron Brougham and Vaux
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
11 November 1999
Election1999
Preceded bySeat established
Personal details
Born (1938-08-02) 2 August 1938
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
Olivia Susan Gray
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(m. 1963; div. 1967)​

Catherine Jill Gulliver
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(m. 1967)​
Children2
Parent(s)Victor Brougham, 4th Baron Brougham and Vaux
Jean Follet
Alma materMillfield
Northampton Institute of Agriculture

Biography

Born the second son of the 4th Baron Brougham and Vaux, Brougham was educated at Millfield, Lycée Jaccard, Switzerland, and the Northampton Institute of Agriculture. On 20 July 1963, he married Olivia Susan Gray and they had one daughter, Henrietta Louise (born 23 February 1965). Succeeding to his father's title in 1967, he also divorced his wife that year and married Catherine Jill Gulliver. They have one son, Charles William Brougham (born 1971).

Lord Brougham has been deputy chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords, deputy speaker of the House of Lords since 1995 and is also currently vice-chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers. He was president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents from 1986 to 1989 (and has been vice-president since 1990), and has been president of Safety Groups UK since it replaced the National Health and Safety Groups Council, in 2005. He has also been chairman of the Tax Payers' Society from 1989 to 1991 and has been chairman of the European Secure Vehicle Alliance since 1992. In 1995, he was appointed CBE.

Arms
Coat of arms of Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux
Crest
A dexter arm in armour embowed Proper the hand holding a lucy fessewise Argent and charged on the elbow with a rose Gules.
Escutcheon
Gules a chevron between three lucies hauriant Argent.
Supporters
Dexter a lion Vert armed and langued Gules gorged with a vaux collar checky Or and of the second, sinister a stag Argent attired and unguled Or holding in the mouth a rose Gules barbed and seeded Vert.
Motto
Pro Rege Lege Grege (For The King The Law And The People)[1]

Notes

    References
    1. Debrett's Peerage. 1921.

    Sources
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