Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara

The Right Honourable The Lord Brabazon of Tara PC DL
Official portrait, 2020
Chairman of Committees
In office 13 November 2002 – 1 May 2012
Preceded by	The Lord Tordoff
Succeeded by	The Lord Sewel
Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees
In office 20 June 2001 – 13 November 2002
Preceded by	The Lord Tordoff
Succeeded by	The Lord Grenfell
Minister of State for Transport
In office 23 July 1990 – 14 April 1992
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Michael Portillo
Succeeded by	The Earl of Caithness
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office 24 July 1989 – 14 July 1990
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Lord Glenarthur
Succeeded by	The Earl of Caithness
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office 10 September 1986 – 23 July 1989
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Earl of Caithness
Succeeded by	Robert Atkins
Lord-in-waiting Government Whip
In office 19 September 1984 – 10 September 1986
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Lord Lucas of Chilworth
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 24 September 1976 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 – 28 April 2022
Election	1999
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	The 4th Baron Remnant
Personal details
Born	Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon (1946-12-20) 20 December 1946
Political party	Conservative
Other political affiliations	Non-affiliated (2001–2012)

Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, PC DL (born 20 December 1946), is a British Conservative politician.

Early life

Lord Brabazon attended Harrow School. He married Harriet Frances de Courcy Hamilton in 1979, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He has worked in the London Stock Exchange and the freight industry.

Political career

House of Lords

He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative and from 1984 to 1986 was a House of Lords whip in Margaret Thatcher's government. He then became a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Transport, holding that post until 1989. Lord Brabazon was then made a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In early 1990, he returned to the Department of Transport as Minister of State, holding that post until leaving office at the 1992 general election.

House of Lords Act 1999

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Brabazon along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was, however, elected as one of the 90 elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.

In 2001, he was elected Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees, and as a result resigned the Conservative whip and became a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords. This means that he is not associated with any party or with the Crossbenchers. He was the Chairman of Committees from 2002 to 2012, at which point he retook the Conservative whip.

Lord Brabazon is a Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight.

Marriage and children

He married Harriet Frances Hamilton, daughter of Mervyn Peter de Courcy Hamilton, on 8 September 1979. They have one son and one daughter:

• Benjamin Ralph Moore-Brabazon (b. 15 March 1983), read economics at Durham University (2002–2005); an investment manager with Brewin Dolphin Married to Molly (née Parish)
  • Max George Moore-Brabazon (b. 23 March 2015)
  • Felix Theodore Reggie Moore-Brabazon (b. 17 May 2017)
• Anabel Mary Moore-Brabazon (born 1985), in-house solicitor at Burberry