David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke
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Leopold David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke FRSA, FRGS (born 14 September 1938) is a British peer. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999; originally elected a Conservative peer, he later joined UKIP, making him one of only three UKIP members of either house of Parliament (though there are several UKIP MEPs). He had succeeded his father's title in 1986.
The son of the 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke and Rachel Wrey, he was educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at New College, Oxford. Since 1992, Verney has been chair of St Martin's Magazines and of SM Theatre Ltd. From 1999 to 2004, he was president of the Heart of England Tourist Board.
Between 1990 and 2004, he was patron of the Warwickshire Association of Boys' Clubs, and in 2005 chairman of Warwickshire Hunt. Since 1992, Verney has been governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and since 2002 president of the Warwickshire branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS).
Verney married firstly Petra Aird, daughter of Colonel Sir John Renton Aird, 3rd Baronet in 1965. Divorced in 1989, he married secondly Alexandra du Luart in 2003. He has three sons by his first wife, including his heir Rupert Greville Verney.
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| Preceded by John Verney |
Baron Willoughby de Broke 1986–present |
Succeeded by (current incumbent) |
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