British peer and businessman (born 1958)
Simon Frederick Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton (born 24 May 1958), styled Viscount Walberton between 1964 and 1969, is a British hereditary peer and businessman.
Early life and education The only son of Roger Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton , and his second wife (Cecily) Josephine Gordon-Cumming (1925–2012), later Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor , elder daughter of Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming, 5th Baronet .[ 1]
After attending Eton , he went up to read Economics and Modern History at the University of St Andrews , graduating MA in 1981.[ 2]
Career Lord Woolton was a director of New Boathouse Capital[ 3] Chief Financial Officer of Quayle Munro ,[ 4] board of Quayle Munro Holdings Ltd.
Woolton was introduced to the House of Lords in 1979 (21 being the minimum age at which a peer can take his or her seat) where he sat until the House of Lords Act 1999 , which removed hereditary peers' automatic right of a legislative seat.
A Freeman of the City of London , Lord Woolton serves as Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners (for 2024/25).[ 5]
Marriages and children Woolton married the Hon. Sophie Birdwood, only child of Mark Birdwood, 3rd Baron Birdwood ,[ 6] [ 7]
Lady Olivia Alice Marquis (born 16 April 1990)Lady Constance Elizabeth Marquis (born 14 October 1991)
Lady Claudia Louise Marquis (born 3 March 1995). Lord Woolton and his first wife were divorced on 13 May 1997. He married secondly, on 28 October 1999, Mrs (Mary) Carol Chapman (née Davidson), who has two daughters from a previous marriage.
As Lord Woolton has no sons nor an heir, as there are no other surviving male-line descendants of the first earl . Thus the earldom and its subsidiary titles will become extinct upon the present earl's death.[ 8]
Coat of arms of Simon Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton
Arms of the Earl of Woolton
Coronet
That of an Earl Crest
Suspended from and between the Antlers of a stag a Stirrup and Leather Proper
Escutcheon
Sable on a Bend engrailed between two Garbs Or a Rose Gules barbed and seeded Proper between two Lions rampant of the Field
Supporters
On either side a Lion rampant Or gorged with a Riband Azure pendent therefrom by a Chain also Or an Escutcheon Azure charged with a Liver Bird Argent
Motto
Fortitudine Virtute Dabitur (By fortitude and courage it shall be given )Other elements
As Master Skinner , Lord Woolton can impale the Skinners' arms (dexter ) with his family arms (sinister )
Notes
References
^ "Woolton, Earl of (UK, 1956)" . Cracoft's Peerage . Heraldic Media Limited. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2010 .^ "Our People: Simon Woolton" . Quayle Munro.^ "New Boathouse Capital Limited" . Directors in the UK.^ Simon Woolton, Chief Financial Officer - website Quayle Munro.^ www.skinners.org.uk ^ "Judith Helen (née Roberts), Lady Birdwood" . National Portrait Gallery .^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage , 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
^ www.burkespeerage.com
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