Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton


Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton is a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Biography

Elton is the son of Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford and succeeded to the peerage on his father's death in 1973.
Between 1964 and 1967, he was a master at Loughborough Grammar School.
On the formation of a Conservative government after the 1979 general election, Elton was made a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office. In 1981 he was moved to the Department of Health and Social Security and in 1982 to the Home Office. In 1984 he was promoted to Minister of State within the Home Office. In 1985, Elton joined the Department of Environment, again as a Minister of State, but left the government the following year.
With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Elton along with other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. However, he was elected as one of the ninety hereditary peers allowed to remain in the House pending completion of House of Lords reform.
Elton was a candidate to become Lord Speaker in the elections that took place at the end of June 2006, but he was defeated, with Baroness Hayman ultimately winning.

Marriages and children

Elton was married to Anne Frances Tilney, daughter of Robert Tilney, on 18 September 1958. They had four children :
Following a divorce in 1979, on 24 August 1979 Elton married Susan Richenda Gurney, daughter of Hugh Gurney and a granddaughter of Lancelot Carnegie. There are no children of this marriage.
Richenda Elton is a current Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth II.

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