Godfrey Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell

Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell (born 4 March 1960) is a British hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords, sitting as a crossbencher.

Official Portrait

He was educated at Eton College and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Prior to the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed all but 92 excepted hereditary peers from the house, he was an active member of the House of Lords.[1] Lord Cromwell lost his seat due to the Act.

On 9 April 2014, he was elected to sit in the House of Lords at a crossbench hereditary peers' by-election, now making him one of the 92 excepted hereditary peers.[2] He sits in the Lords as Lord Cromwell.

Coat of arms
Coat of arms of Godfrey Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell
Notes
Coat of arms of the Bewicke-Copley family
Coronet
A coronet of a Baron
Crest
st: issuant from a Ducal Coronet Or a Plume of five Ostrich Feathers Argent (Copley); 2nd: A Goat's Head erased Argent armed maned and gorged with a Mural Crown Gules (Bewicke)
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Chief Gules overall a Bend Azure (Cromwell); 2nd and 3rd, Checky Or and Azure a Chief Ermine (Tatshall); overall an Inescutcheon quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Cross Moline Sable (Copley); 2nd and 3rd, Argent five Lozenges in fess Gules each charged with a Mullet of the field between three Boars' Heads erased Sable (Bewicke)
Supporters
On either side a Lion Sable each charged on the shoulder with a representation of the Treasurer's Purse Or (being the badge of Ralph Cromwell, 4th Baron Cromwell)
Motto
In Cruce Vinco (I conquer by the cross)

References
Peerage of England
Preceded by
David Godfrey Bewicke-Copley		 Baron Cromwell
1982–present		 Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Moran		 Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under of the House of Lords Act 1999
2014–present		 Incumbent
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