Alastair Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain
Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell, 4th Baron Colgrain, DL (born 16 September 1951), is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.
The Right Honourable The Lord Colgrain | |
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Official parliamentary portrait, 2023 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
| as an elected hereditary peer 27 March 2017 | |
| Preceded by | The 3rd Baron Lyell |
| Succeeded by | in office |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alastair Colin Leckie Campbell 16 September 1951 Sevenoaks, Kent, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Annabel Warrender (m. 1979) |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
After attending Eton College, he went up to read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as MA. Starting his career in the City with J Henry Schroder Wagg, he joined the Welbeck Group as a financial services headhunter in 1985. Taken over by the Whitney Group 1991, he was promoted Managing Director, CEO becoming its Vice-President (Europe) in 1999. Since 2008, he has been a partner running the Campbell family estate in the Weald of Kent and served as High Sheriff of Kent for 2013/14, before being appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent in 2017.
Lord Colgrain was elected to sit in the Upper House at a whole House by-election in March 2017, in place of Lord Lyell who died on 11 January 2017.