Alastair Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain

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.

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

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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