3rd Baron Selsdon (1937-2024)

[bx...@yahoo.com]

According to Wikipedia, the 3rd Baron Selsdon (Malcolm McEacharn MITCHELL-THOMSON) (b. Oct. 27, 1937) has died.  

No actual date of death is given, just that the death was announced on Sept. 18th. 2024.

He is succeeded by his only son,  Callum Malcom McEacharn) (b. 1969), who will become the 4th Baron.

The new baron's only son, Alec Callum (b. 2006), becomes the heir apparent.

He is the only one in remainder to the title.

Brooke

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It's not "according to Wikipedia" if there's a reference cited for the death on the page. Wikipedia in itself is not a source.

In this case there is a reference on his page, and it's the UK Parliament website, here: https://members.parliament.uk/member/2127/career 

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Sorry, I was citing Wikipedia, which cited the ultimate source, which you indicated in your post.

Thanks for the correction.

Brooke

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It's important to cite primary sources. It shows how reliable posted news are. Wikipedia is not a reliable source.

[bx...@yahoo.com]

I don't disagree, but I have often found the deaths of peers and baronets, which turn out to be true, first listed on Wikipedia.  

Brooke

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The new Baron is born on 7 Nov 1969. Burkes Peerage, 106th ed.

[BREMENMURRAY]

His obit is now in the Telegraph online

[colinp]

His date of death according to the Telegraph obit was 18 Sept 2024 -  Lord Selsdon, businessman and Tory peer who once caused consternation in the DVLA - obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

EXTRACTS:

Lord Selsdon, businessman, banker and Tory peer who once caused consternation in the DVLA

His claim to have obtained phone numbers of litter-dropping motorists from friends in the agency appeared to breach the Data Protection Act

The 3rd Baron Selsdon, who has died aged 86, was a banker, businessman and from 1999 to 2021 one of the Conservative peers elected to continue serving in the Lords after Tony Blair’s cull of the hereditaries. Succeeding his father in 1963, he was the second longest-serving member of the House by the time he was lapsed for non-attendance at the age of 83……….

Selsdon suffered somewhat from confusion between the title his grandfather had adopted and the libertarian free-marketeers led by Nicholas Ridley and Sir Keith Joseph who in 1973 formed the Selsdon Group, today chaired by John Redwood.

The group had its roots in a policy session chaired by Edward Heath prior to the 1970 election at the Selsdon Park Hotel, near Croydon, at which robust policies including letting industrial “lame ducks” go to the wall had been adopted; Harold Wilson gave Tories of this kind the soubriquet “Selsdon Man”.

Yet Selsdon himself had no connection with the group, and little politically in common with it. His Conservatism was of a more centrist variety.

Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson was born on October 27 1937, the son of the 2nd Baron and his first wife, Phoebette Swithinbank.

His grandfather, the 1st Baron, was the Conservative politician who oversaw the birth of BBC television – appearing in the first night’s transmission from Alexandra Palace. His father competed in the Le Mans 24-hour race either side of the war; in 1949, with Luigi Chinetti, he drove a Ferrari to victory there for the first time after Enzo Ferrari had refused to enter a car himself………………….

Selsdon took his seat in the Lords in July 1963, but did not make his maiden speech – on pollution and the environment – until December 1970.

A month later he spoke in the debate on Heath’s opening negotiations with Brussels to take Britain into the EEC. His performance impressed Lord Jellicoe, Leader of the Lords and a fellow Wykehamist, who chose him that November to second the Loyal Address on the Queen’s Speech……………………..

Selsdon married first, in 1965, Patricia Smith; they divorced, and she died in 2018. In 1995 he married secondly Gabrielle Williams. She survives him, with a son from his first marriage: Callum Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson, born 1969, who succeeds to the title as 4th Baron.

Lord Selsdon, born October 27 1937, died September 18 2024

[bx...@yahoo.com]

DPM online has now updated this page.

The only one is remainder is the new baron's son, the Hon. ALEX CALLUM  (b. 2006).

Brooke

[David Beamish]

The date of death given by the Daily Telegraph (18 September) turns out to be wrong: there are notices in today's Times and Daily Telegraph as follows:

SELSDON Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson, 3rd Baron Selsdon, died peacefully on 15th September 2024, aged 86. Beloved husband, father, brother, grandfather and stepfather, he is greatly missed. Memorial service on Monday 18th November in London. Please contact J.H. Kenyon on Tel: 020 7834 4624 for details.

[colinp]

Callum Malcolm McEacharn MITCHELL-THOMSON is now entered on the Roll of the Peerage as Baron Selsdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

[colinp]

The 4th Baron is also entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage as the 5th Baronet Mitchell-Thomson, formerly Thomson, of Polmood