Edward Peter Bertram Savile Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool (born 14 November 1944) is a British

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 peer and Conservative

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 politician.

Liverpool is the son of Captain Peter George William Savile Foljambe and Elizabeth Joan Flint. In 1969, at the age of 24, he succeeded his great-uncle as Earl of Liverpool and took his seat in the House of Lords

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. He was educated at Shrewsbury School

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. He is now one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

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s who remain in the House of Lords

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 after the House of Lords Act

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 of 1999, and sits on the Conservative

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 benches.

Lord Liverpool married, firstly, Lady Juliana Mary Alice Noel, daughter of Anthony Gerard Edward Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough

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 and Mary Stourton, on 29 January 1970. They were divorced in 1994. He married, secondly, Comtesse Marie-Ange de Pierredon, daughter of Géraud Michel de Pierredon

Géraud Michel de Pierredon

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, Comte de Pierredon

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, on 26 May 1995. Lord Liverpool has two children from his first marriage:

• Luke Foljambe, Viscount Hawkesbury (b. 25 March 1972)
• Ralph Foljambe (b. 1974)