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The Right Honourable
The Lord Rotherwick
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 July 1996
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 2nd Lord Rotherwick
Personal details
Born
Herbert Robin Cayzer

(1954-03-12) 12 March 1954 (age 70)
Tynley Hall
NationalityEnglish
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)Sara Jane McAlpine (divorced)
Tania Jane Fox
ChildrenHerbert (Bertie), Henry (Alexander), Harriette, August (Gus), Tommy (deceased), Clementine
Parent(s)Herbert Cayzer
Sarah Jane Slade
ResidenceCornbury Park
EducationHarrow School
Insignia of Baronet

(Herbert) Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick (born 12 March 1954) is a British landowner and estate manager. He is a Conservative politician, sitting as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

Early life

Robin Cayzer was born on 12 March 1954. He is the son of Herbert Cayzer, 2nd Baron Rotherwick[1] and Sarah Jane Slade, of the Slade baronets. He spent his early childhood at Bletchingdon Park, a Palladian country house in Oxfordshire.[2] When he was 13, the family moved to Cornbury Park, in the same county, where he still lives.

He attended Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was further educated at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, where he graduated with a Diploma in Agriculture (GDA) in 1982.

Career

Between 1973 and 1976, Cayzer was Acting Captain of The Life Guards and between 1977 and 1983, of the Household Cavalry. He worked for Barings Bank from 1976–78 and for Bristol Helicopters from 1978–80.

A qualified pilot, he represented the Popular Flying Association as a member of the executive committee from 1997 to 2001, and as vice-chairman from 1999 to 2001. He is also president of the General Aviation Awareness Council and a director of the Light Aviation Association.[3]

In 1996, he succeeded to his father's peerage title, and took up his seat in Britain's upper chamber as a Conservative. The passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 saw him elected as one of the 92 hereditary peers to remain in their seats for life. His areas of interest are listed as agriculture, animals, food and rural affairs; aviation; defence; energy and environment.

In 2005, he became a Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust. He belongs to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Motorcycling.[4] He is also a Patron of the National Association for Bikers with a Disability.[5]

Since 2004, he has been board director of Cayzer Continuation PCC Ltd and since 2006, non-active chairman of Air Touring Ltd. According to his register of interests on the House of Lords website, he is a director of Cornbury Estates Company Limited and Cornbury Maintenance Company Ltd (both described as property companies) and of Bygone Engineering.[6] Cornbury Park has about 5,000 acres of land, including part of the old royal forest of Wychwood. Cayzer has developed business units for rental there, and for several years sponsored a music festival.[7]

Personal life

Cayzer married Sara Jane McAlpine on 6 March 1982 and they were divorced in 1994.[8] They have three children. He married secondly Tania Fox[9] (the sister-in-law of Mark Carney[10]) on 21 June 2000.

Children by his first wife:

  • The Honourable Harriette Cayzer (1986) she married Frederick Turner in 2014. They have two children:
    • Isobel Turner (13 October 2016)
    • Alfred Turner (4 January 2019)
  • The Honourable Herbert Cayzer (10 July 1989) he married Allison Boynton on 22 August 2015. They have one son:
    • Herbert Robin Cayzer (13 October 2017)
  • The Honourable Henry Cayzer (1991) he married Delaney Ford on 31 August 2019.

Children by his second wife:

  • The Honourable August Cayzer (25 November 2000)
  • The Honourable Tommy Cayzer (2 March 2003-April 2003)

Lord Rotherwick succeeded to the Cayzer baronetcy of Gartmore on the death of his kinsman Sir James Arthur Cayzer, 5th Baronet, on 27 February 2012.

He is a second cousin twice removed of Labour and Co-operative politician Stella Creasy through his great grandfather Conservative politician Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Baronet on her maternal side.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ Herbert, 2nd Lord Rotherwick at www.npg.org.uk
  2. ^ Koenig, Chris (18 November 2010). "Profile: Cornbury Park". Oxford Times. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  3. ^ "House of Lords profiles". House of Lords. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  4. ^ Register of All-Party Groups, p. 416
  5. ^ NABD Patrons Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 27 May 2009
  6. ^ "House of Lords profiles". House of Lords. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  7. ^ Koenig, Chris (18 November 2010). "Profile: Cornbury Park". Oxford Times. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  8. ^ www.thepeerage.com
  9. ^ "Lady Rotherwick is at home in the Wilderness". Oxford Times.
  10. ^ Fagge, Nick (26 November 2012). "A jolly hockey sticks English wife". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  11. ^ "Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Baronet - Person Page". The Peerage. 15 February 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick - Person Page". The Peerage. 28 August 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Rotherwick
1996–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Herbert Cayzer
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baronet
(of Gartmore)
2012–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Herbert Cayzer
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