Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont
| The Right Honourable The Lord Chalfont OBE MC PC |
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| Chalfont during a visit to Germany in 1966. | |
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| Born | Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones 5 December 1919 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour Crossbencher[1] |
| Occupation | Politician |
Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, OBE, MC, PC (born 5 December 1919) is a British politician.
Jones was educated at West Monmouth School, and subsequently at the School of Slavonic Studies in the University of London.[2] He was a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1964 to 1970 and appointed to the Privy Council in the former year. He also authored several military history books regarding various subjects, including the Napoleonic Wars.
Having been created Baron Chalfont, of Llantarnam in the County of Monmouthshire on 11 November 1964,[3] his life peerage is the most senior extant (since the death of Lord Shawcross in 2003), and Lord Chalfont is higher in the order of precedence than several hereditary barons whose inherited titles postdate his.
He contributed an article on The Strategic Defence Initiative to the Conservative Monday Club's October 1985 Conservative Party Conference issue of their newspaper, Right Ahead. Lord Chalfont is a former chairman of the Radio Authority which regulated commercial radio in the UK until its role was absorbed by Ofcom. Lord Chalfont set up the Institute for the Study of Terrorism with Jillian Becker in 1985.
He had been granted a permanent leave of absence which was terminated on 9 June 2008.
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[edit] Marriage and child
He was married with Mona Mitchell, daughter of Harry Douglas Mitchell, since 1948. She died on 31 May 2008. Together they had one child, a daughter.
[edit] Publications
- 1976 Montgomery of Alamein. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- 1979 Waterloo; battle of three armies: Anglo-Dutch by William Seymour; French by Jacques Champagne; Prussian by E. Kaulbach; prologue & epilogue by Lord Chalfont; edited by Lord Chalfont. London: Sidgwick and Jackson
- 1985 Star Wars: suicide or survival? London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- 1987 Defence of the Realm. London: Collins
- 1989 By God's Will: a portrait of the Sultan of Brunei. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- 2000 The Shadow of my Hand . London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (autobiography)
[edit] References
- ^ "Lord Chalfont". UK Parliament. http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/arthur-gwynne-jones/27115. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ thePeerage.com
- ^ London Gazette: no. 43492. p. 9821. 17 November 1964. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
[edit] External links
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- Interview with Lord Chalfont BBC October 1974. Starts at 2min 30 sec on clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XVUvCalI_g&feature=related.
