GAREL-JONES, Rt Hon Baron PC (LP cr 1997) (1941-2020)

[Richard R]

He was s of Bernard GAREL-JONES of Madrid, Spain and Meriel WILLIAMS. He m 1966 Catalina d of Mariano GARRIGUES of Madrid, and had fours sons and a dau. He was sometime Vice-Chamberlain, Comptroller & Treasurer of The QUEEN's Household, political appointments.

Obituaries in the Telegraph and Times. Note the former says died 23 March, the latter 24 March.

TELEGRAPH OBIT EXTRACT
Tristan Garel-Jones, Tory ‘wet’ and able deputy chief whip under Margaret Thatcher – obituary
Lord Garel-Jones, as he became after leaving the Commons, found himself accused by Mrs Thatcher's supporters of ‘knifing her in the back’
Brought up in Madrid, where he kept a dazzling collection of contemporary Spanish art, the teetotal Garel-Jones’s apparently Castilian features were misleading; he was entirely Welsh (and, as it happens, a chain-smoker). But his fluency in Spanish (as well as Welsh and French) led to his acting as an emissary to Argentina (the first time after the Falklands conflict), Chile and Mexico, where he negotiated the loan of London Zoo’s giant panda.
William Armand Thomas Tristan Garel-Jones was born at Gorseinon, Swansea, on February 28 1941, the son of Bernard Garel-Jones, a lawyer who drove a bus during the General Strike, and Meriel, née Williams, a miner’s daughter who became an Eisteddfod prize-winner. When his father was posted to India the family moved to Llangennech, near Llanelli, Tristan attending a Welsh-speaking school.
In 1948 Bernard Garel-Jones moved to Madrid to teach English. Tristan was sent to King’s School, Canterbury, where he shone at rugby, playing also for London Welsh schoolboys and for Kent. Years later he told the Yorkshire miners’ MP Mick Welsh that the communal showers each had experienced gave them something in common. “Aye, lad,” replied Welsh. “But we didn’t have to worry when we bent down to pick up the soap.”
Tristan returned to Madrid to start a language school with his father. An early student, Catalina Garrigues, was an industrialist’s daughter who became his wife in 1966. The school thrived, and Tristan diversified into property; he would be less fortunate as a “name” at Lloyd’s.
Lord Garel-Jones is survived by his wife Catalina and by their four sons and a daughter.
Lord Garel-Jones, born February 28 1941, died March 23 2020
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/03/24/tristan-garel-jonestory-wet-able-deputy-chief-whip-margaret/

TIMES OBIT EXTRACT
Garel-Jones remained an MP until 1997, and was ennobled on his retirement. He wanted to be Lord Garel-Jones of Maastricht, but the authorities said that he could not have a foreign place name. He became Lord Garel-Jones of Watford instead.
...He died in his sleep after a long illness on March 24 2020, aged 79
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/lord-garel-jones-obituary-gzgpwwcrj

[Andrew]

A younger sister of the widow, Pilin is married to Lochie Spearman, scion of the Baronets. Their son James married Princess Amélia de Orleans-Bragança (Brazil).

[Henry W]

https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2020-03-25/debates/3E9D0435-A995-4882-AB73-3E51EC4DE6F6/DeathOfAMemberLordGarel-Jones

My Lords, I regret to inform the House of the death of the noble Lord, Lord Garel-Jones, on 24 March. On behalf of the House, I extend our condolences to the noble Lord’s family and friends.

[Netty Leistra]

The death announcement by the family in the Spanish newspaper ABC

https://www.abc.es/esquelas/esquela.asp?defuncion=TRISTAN+GAREL%2DJONES&ide=39183

[Richard R]

Thanks. And in the Times of 28 March 2020: GAREL JONES The Rt Hon The Lord Tristan died on 24th March 2020, aged 79. Tristan died peacefully in his sleep at Candeleda in Avila, Spain. He is survived by his wife Catalina, fiver children and twelve grandchildren....