Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton

Chapel of Eton College

Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton (born 2 March 1930) is a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Biography

Lord 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.

On the formation of a Conservative government after the 1979 general election, Lord 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, Lord 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, Lord Elton along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was however elected as one of the ninety elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.

Lord 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 Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman ultimately winning.

Marriages & Children

Elton was married to Anne Frances Tilney, daughter of Brigadier Robert Adolphus George Tilney, CBE, DSO, TD, on 18 September 1958. They had four children:[1]

Following a divorce in 1979, on 24 August 1979 Elton married Susan Richenda Gurney (born 1937), daughter of Sir Hugh Gurney, KCMG, MVO and a granddaughter of Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie. There are no children of this marriage.

Lady Elton is a current Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II.[2]

Titles and Styles

Coat of arms

Arms of Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton
Notes
Coat of arms of the Elton family
Coronet
A coronet of a Baron
Crest
Between two pierced Mullets and out of a Wreath of Laurel fructed Or a Dexter Arm embowed in Mail proper tied about the elbow a Cord Or the Gauntlet grasping a Scimitar proper hilted and pommeled Or
Escutcheon
Paly Or and Gules a Bend and on a Chief Sable three pierced Mullets Or
Supporters
Dexter: a Knight in Mail and White Surcoat supporting with the exterior hand a Sword point downwards proper hilted and pommeled Or; Sinister: a Viking habited proper mantled Azure supporting with the exterior hand a Battleaxe head downwards and outwards proper
Motto
Fide Quam Fortuna (By faith rather than fortune)

References

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Godfrey Elton
Baron Elton
1973–present
Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Edward Elton
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