Derek Charles Moore-Brabazon, 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (24 December 1910 - 11 December 1974) succeeded the title Baron Brabazon of Tara

Baron Brabazon of Tara

Baron Brabazon of Tara, of Sandwich in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1942 for the aviation pioneer and Conservative politician John Moore-Brabazon. Moore-Brabazon was a descendant through a female line of Edward Brabazon, 7th Earl of Meath...

 in 1964 with the death of his father, John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, carrying it for just ten years until his death in 1974.

He was educated at Harrow School

Harrow School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. An active Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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, he was a councillor in Kensington

Metropolitan Borough of Kensington

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, 1948-56, Chairman of the South Kensington

South Kensington

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 Conservative Association 1952-54 and chairman of London Conservative Union, 1957-58.

In 1939, Moore-Brabazon married Henrietta Mary Krabbé, née Clegg. Their son, Ivon

Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara

Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, DL is a British Conservative politician.Lord Brabazon attended Harrow School and married Harriet Frances de Courcy Hamilton in 1979, with whom he had a son and a daughter...

, succeeded his father in 1974.