John Charles Dodson, 3rd Baron Monk Bretton
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John Charles Dodson, 3rd Baron Monk Bretton (born 17 July 1924) is an agriculturist, Sussex
landowner, UK peer of the realm
, and long serving member of the House of Lords
.
John Dodson succeeded his father, John William Dodson
, in 1933.
He was only nine years old. Educated at Westminster
and New College
, Oxford, he became a member of Brooks's
in 1949. He married Zoe Scott in 1958, and has two sons.
Between 1966-68 Lord and Lady Monk Bretton had Raymond Erith
re-model a Queen Anne house his great-grandfather, Sir John Dodson
, had acquired near Barcombe
from the family of Percy Bysshe Shelley
. The Dodsons had hitherto largely just rented it out; Bose, Lord Alfred Douglas
, for example, was a tenant circa 1920. The house, Shelley's Folly, Erith described as 'a little pavilion, on a knoll, built for the view'. Monk Bretton, having consequently sold another larger and newer nearby house, lived there until moving to Switzerland in 2004.
He has been a Deputy Lieutenant
for East Sussex since 1983, and a stalwart of the South of England Agricultural Society show, at Ardingly
, since its foundation in 1967.
Following expulsion from the House of Lords in 1999 he moved to the Lake Geneva
northern shore
.
. Over 51 years later the by then 75 year old peer was excluded by the House of Lords Act 1999
.
His maiden speech was made 18 March 1948 in Lord Dowding
's Notice debate on the Slaughter of Animals.
The 'capricious donation of birth' (a phrase coined by the late Lord Williams of Mostyn in 1999), it could be said, saw that he shares with his grandfather, 1st Lord Monk Bretton (a successful Chairman of Committees
(1865–72) and friend of Gladstone):
At 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 9 November 1999 Lord Grantchester
rose to ask Her Majesty's Government how their proposals for the milk industry and in particular for the supply of raw milk will affect the rural economy, in the ensuing debate Monk Bretton made his valediction.
He concluded his 13 minute speech thus:
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
landowner, UK peer of the realm
Peer of the Realm
Peer of the Realm is a term for a member of the highest social order in a kingdom, notably:...
, and long serving member of the House of Lords
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
.
John Dodson succeeded his father, John William Dodson
John William Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton
John William Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton, CB , , diplomat, sometime chairman of London County Council, and landowner....
, in 1933.
He was only nine years old. Educated at Westminster
Westminster School
The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in Britain...
and New College
New College, Oxford
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...
, Oxford, he became a member of Brooks's
Brooks's
Brooks's is one of London's most exclusive gentlemen's clubs, founded in 1764 by 27 men, including four dukes. From its inception, it was the meeting place for Whigs of the highest social order....
in 1949. He married Zoe Scott in 1958, and has two sons.
Between 1966-68 Lord and Lady Monk Bretton had Raymond Erith
Raymond Erith
Raymond Erith was an English architect known for his restorations and work in a traditional styles. Critic Ian Nairn described his work as "genuinely Georgian, not 'neo'".He formed the partnership Erith & Terry with his pupil Quinlan Terry....
re-model a Queen Anne house his great-grandfather, Sir John Dodson
Sir John Dodson
Sir John Dodson was an English judge and member of parliament.-Life:Dodson was born at Hurstpierpoint 19 January 1780. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Dr. John Dodson, rector of Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, who died in July 1807, and Frances, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Dawson...
, had acquired near Barcombe
Barcombe
Barcombe is an East Sussex village lying some 4–5 miles north of Lewes. It is also the name of one of the civil parishes in the Lewes District of East Sussex...
from the family of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
. The Dodsons had hitherto largely just rented it out; Bose, Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas , nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde...
, for example, was a tenant circa 1920. The house, Shelley's Folly, Erith described as 'a little pavilion, on a knoll, built for the view'. Monk Bretton, having consequently sold another larger and newer nearby house, lived there until moving to Switzerland in 2004.
He has been a Deputy Lieutenant
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....
for East Sussex since 1983, and a stalwart of the South of England Agricultural Society show, at Ardingly
Ardingly
Ardingly is a village and civil parish in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty about north of Haywards Heath in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. The village is about south of London, south-south-west of East Grinstead, southeast of Crawley, north of Brighton and ...
, since its foundation in 1967.
Following expulsion from the House of Lords in 1999 he moved to the Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva or Lake Léman is a lake in Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe. 59.53 % of it comes under the jurisdiction of Switzerland , and 40.47 % under France...
northern shore
La Tour-de-Peilz
La Tour-de-Peilz is a municipality in Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The city is located on Lake Geneva between Montreux and Vevey .-History:...
.
Monk Bretton in the Lords
Lord Monk Bretton 'Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father' on Tuesday, 27 January 1948. The 23 year old was greeted by the Second Reading of the Parliament Act 1949Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949
The Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 are two Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which form part of the constitution of the United Kingdom. Section 2 of the Parliament Act 1949 provides that that Act and the Parliament Act 1911 are to be construed as one.The Parliament Act 1911 The...
. Over 51 years later the by then 75 year old peer was excluded by the House of Lords Act 1999
House of Lords Act 1999
The House of Lords Act 1999 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. The Act reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament. For centuries, the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats;...
.
His maiden speech was made 18 March 1948 in Lord Dowding
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding GCB, GCVO, CMG was a British officer in the Royal Air Force...
's Notice debate on the Slaughter of Animals.
The 'capricious donation of birth' (a phrase coined by the late Lord Williams of Mostyn in 1999), it could be said, saw that he shares with his grandfather, 1st Lord Monk Bretton (a successful Chairman of Committees
Committee of Ways and Means
The Committee of Ways and Means is a government body that is charged with reviewing and making recommendations for government budgets. The term "Ways and Means" originated with the English Parliament and refers to the provision of revenue to meet national expenditure requirements and to forward...
(1865–72) and friend of Gladstone):
- 'A cold formal manner, a dry voice, a level flow of speech, and a painfully practical turn of mind, [that] whilst making Mr. Dodson's intervention sometimes useful, do not endear him to his audience',
-
- (Men and Measures in Parliament, 1874, quoted in G.E.C.The Complete PeerageThe Complete Peerage The Complete Peerage The Complete Peerage (full title: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant; first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms; 2nd edition revised by the Hon...
(1936), vol. 9, p.55).
- (Men and Measures in Parliament, 1874, quoted in G.E.C.
-
At 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 9 November 1999 Lord Grantchester
Christopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester
Christopher John Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester is a British peer and Labour politician.He is the son of the 2nd Baron Grantchester and Lady Grantchester and was educated at Winchester College, where he was in the school football team, and at the London School of Economics, where he...
rose to ask Her Majesty's Government how their proposals for the milk industry and in particular for the supply of raw milk will affect the rural economy, in the ensuing debate Monk Bretton made his valediction.
He concluded his 13 minute speech thus:
- That is the end of my remarks, but I wish also to say goodbye. It is likely that the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, who initiated this debate, and I will no longer attend this House. I am delighted that a maiden speaker [ Lord Carlile of Berriew ] is to speak after me. I hope that he will carry the torch for British dairying.
Ancestry
| John Charles Dodson (1924- ), Lord Monk Bretton. | Father: John William Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton John William Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton John William Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton, CB , , diplomat, sometime chairman of London County Council, and landowner.... |
Paternal Grandfather: John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton |
Paternal Great-Grandfather: Sir John Dodson Sir John Dodson Sir John Dodson was an English judge and member of parliament.-Life:Dodson was born at Hurstpierpoint 19 January 1780. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Dr. John Dodson, rector of Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, who died in July 1807, and Frances, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Dawson... , Kt, PC, LLD (1780–1858), MP (Rye, East Sussex Rye, East Sussex Rye is a small town in East Sussex, England, which stands approximately two miles from the open sea and is at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede... ), Dean of the Arches. |
| Paternal Great-grandmother: Frances Priscilla (1788–1869), daughter of Dr. George Pearson, FRS (1751–1828). |
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| Paternal Grandmother: Caroline Florence Campion (d.1912). They married in 1856. |
Paternal Great-Grandfather: William John Campion (1804–1869) of Danny Danny House Danny is an impressive Grade I listed Elizabethan red brick Mansion near Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, England. It lies at the northern foot of Wolstonbury Hill and one of the finest stately houses in Sussex, with 56 bedrooms and 28 apartments. The present house was built 1593-95 by George... . They married in 1829. |
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| Paternal Great-Grandmother: Harriet, daughter of Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp was an English property developer and politician. He was the son of Sussex landowner Thomas Kemp, whose farmhouse in Brighton was rented by the Prince of Wales in 1786.-Biography:... (1782–1844), of Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... . |
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| Mother: Ruth Brand |
Maternal Grandfather: Hon. Charles Brand |
Maternal Great-Grandfather: Mr. Speaker Brand Viscount Hampden Viscount Hampden is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1776 for the diplomat and politician Robert Hampden, 4th Baron Trevor... (1st Viscount Hampden). |
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| Maternal Great-Grandmother: Eliza (1818–99), daughter of general Robert Ellice, by Eliza Courtney Eliza Courtney Eliza Courtney was the 'natural'/illegitimate daughter of the Whig politician and future Prime Minister Charles Grey and the society beauty Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, while Georgiana was married to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.The Duchess was forced by her husband to relinquish... (1792–1859). Edward Ellice was an uncle, and Georgiana Devonshire a grandmother. |
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| Maternal Grandmother: Alice van de Weyer. |
Maternal Great-grandfather: Sylvain Van de Weyer Sylvain Van de Weyer Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer was a Belgian politician, and then the Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James's, effectively the ambassador to the United Kingdom.... |
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| Maternal Great-Grandmother: Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Bates Joshua Bates (financier) Joshua Bates was an international financier who divided his life between the United States and the United Kingdom.Bates was born in Commercial St., Weymouth, Massachusetts. Early in his career he worked for William Gray, owner of Gray's Wharf in Charlestown. A merchant and a banker, in 1828 Bates... . |
External links
- John Charles Dodson, 3rd Baron Monk Bretton at ThePeerage.com
- Lords' speech on 21 May 1999 in the second reading debate of Lord Renton of Mount Harry's Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Bill.
- Quoted in The Guardian, 5 November 1999. The paper edition had a photograph of him on the front page.
- Valedictory Milk debate in Hansard, House of Lords, 9 November 1999.
- New Residence (French Wiki)