Alastair Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain
The Lord Colgrain | |
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Official parliamentary portrait, 2023 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| as an elected hereditary peer 27 March 2017 | |
| Preceded by | The 3rd Baron Lyell |
| Succeeded by | in office |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell 16 September 1951 Sevenoaks, Kent, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Annabel Warrender (m. 1979) |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Trinity 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.
After attending Eton College, he went up to read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as MA. Starting his career in the City with J Henry Schroder Wagg, he joined the Welbeck Group as a financial services headhunter in 1985. Taken over by the Whitney Group 1991, he was promoted Managing Director, CEO becoming its Vice-President (Europe) in 1999. Since 2008, he has been a partner running the Campbell family estate in the Weald of Kent and served as High Sheriff of Kent for 2013/14, before being appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent in 2017.
Lord Colgrain was elected to sit in the Upper House at a whole House by-election in March 2017, in place of Lord Lyell who died on 11 January 2017.