John Manningham-Buller, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne

John Mervyn Manningham-Buller, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne (born 28 February 1932) is a British barrister and peer.

Background and education

Lord Dilhorne is the son of Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, and Lady Mary Lindsay, daughter of David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford. His sister is Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Career

After service in the Coldstream Guards, Dilhorne was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1979. He was Managing Director of Stewart Smith (LP&M) Ltd from 1970 to 1974 and Chairman of the Value Added Tax Tribunal from 1988 to 1995, a member of Wiltshire County Council, 1967 to 1970, of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Instruments, 1981 to 1988, of the JPC on Consolidation Bills, 1994–1999, and of the EC Select Committee (Law and Institutions), 1989–1992.^[1]

Family

Lord Dilhorne married, firstly, Gillian Stockwell, on 8 October 1955, and they were divorced in 1973. They had three children:

Hon. James Edward Manningham-Buller (born 1956)
Hon. Mervyn Manningham-Buller (born 1962)
Hon. Mary Louise Manningham-Buller (born 1970)

He married, secondly, Dr Susannah Jane Eykyn on 17 December 1981. She is a professor of clinical microbiology ^[2] associated with St Thomas' Hospital. ^[3]

The Dilhornes have homes in London and at Minterne Parva, Dorset. ^[4]

Ancestry

Ancestors of John Manningham-Buller, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne

16. Sir Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Baronet, of Dilhorne

8. Edmund Manningham-Buller

17. Mary Manningham

4. Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller, 3rd Baronet, of Dilhorne

18. Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester

9. Lady Anne Coke

19. Juliana Whitbread

2. Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne

20. William Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham

10. Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham

21. Henrietta Lascelles

5. The Hon. Lilah Cavendish

22. Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster

11. Lady Beatrice Grosvenor

23. Lady Constance Sutherland-Leveson-Gower

1. John Manningham-Buller, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne

24. Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford

12. James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford

25. Margaret Lindsay

6. David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford

26. The Hon. Edward Bootle-Wilbraham

13. Emily Bootle-Wilbraham

27. Emily Ramsbottom

3. Lady Mary Lindsay

28. Sir John Pelly, 2nd Baronet, of Upton

14. Sir Henry Pelly, 3rd Baronet, of Upton

29. Johanna Carstairs

7. Constance Pelly

30. Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss

15. Lady Lilian Charteris

31. Lady Anne Anson

References

↑ DILHORNE, 2nd Viscount in Who's Who 2009 (A. & C. Black, 2008, online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2008), accessed 26 September 2009
↑ "Viscountess condemns Defra over eggs bureaucracy". Daily Telegraph. 11 Nov 2009.
↑ "Dr Susannah J Eykyn, FRCP".
↑ "Dilhorne, Viscount (UK, 1964)". Cracrofts Peerage.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Dilhorne
Pedigree at Genealogics

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Reginald Manningham-Buller	Viscount Dilhorne 1980–present	Incumbent

British viscounts*

In the peerages of England, Scotland and Great Britain

Hereford Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird Bolingbroke & St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood

In the peerage of Ireland *(pre-1801)*

Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene & Ferrard Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden

In the peerages of United Kingdom & Ireland (post-1801)

*Current substantive viscounts, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest

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