The Right Honourable
The Lord Colgrain
DL
Official parliamentary portrait, 2023
Member of the House of Lords
as an elected hereditary peer
27 March 2017
By-election27 March 2017
Preceded byThe 3rd Baron Lyell
Personal details
Born
Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell

(1951-09-16) 16 September 1951
Political partyConservative
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain, DL (born 16 September 1951) is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1973).[1] He was High Sheriff of Kent from 2013 to 2014 and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent in 2017.[2] His wife, Lady Colgrain, became Lord Lieutenant of Kent in 2020.[3]

He was elected to sit in the House at a whole House by-election in March 2017, in place of Lord Lyell who died January 2017.[4]

Coat of arms of Alastair Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain
Crest
A boar’s head erect and erased Azure issuing from a wreath of myrtle leaved and flowered Proper.
Escutcheon
Gyronny of eight Or and Sable on a chief Azure a bezant between two crescents of the first.
Supporters
On the dexter side a horse Argent and on the sinister side a boar Azure.
Motto
Fac Et Spera [5]

References

  1. ↑ ‘COLGRAIN’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
  2. ↑ "Experience for Lord Colgrain". UK Parliament. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "The Lady Colgrain". The Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "Hereditary peers' by-election, March 2017: result" (PDF). House of Lords. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
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