John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley

John Desmond Forbes Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley (born 31 October 1949) is a British peer.

The Right Honourable

The Viscount Waverley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
29 June 1990
Hereditary peerage
Preceded byThe 2nd Viscount Waverley
Personal details
Born31 October 1949
Political partycrossbencher
EducationMalvern College

The son of the 2nd Viscount Waverley and his wife Lorna Ledgerwood,[1] he was educated at Malvern College.[2]

Lord Waverley was first married to Anne Suzette Davidson in 1969. He then married Ursula Helen Barrow in 1994.[3]

He succeeded to his father's titles in 1990. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers in the House of Lords elected to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a crossbencher.[4]

He takes a particular interest in the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and works as a consultant to the Middle East Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC).[5] He has been honoured with a Yoruba Chieftaincy in Nigeria and received State decorations from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Colombia.[6]

Lord Waverley has set up the website Parliament Revealed, to explain the workings of the UK Parliament.[7]

Arms
Coat of arms of John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley
Coronet
A Coronet of a Viscount
Crest
A Demi Lion rampant Or armed and langued Azure holding in his dexter forepaw a Branch of Olive proper
Escutcheon
Argent a Saltire engrailed between a Mullet in chief and a Lotus Flower in base and in each flank a Crescent Gules on a Chief Sable three Martlets of the field
Supporters
On either side a Horse Argent crined and unguled Or
Motto
Beati Pacifi (Blessed are the peacemakers)

References
  1. "Dowager Viscountess Waverley, widow of 2nd Viscount". Peerage News.
  2. Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland
  3. "Cracroft's Peerage Database". Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  4. "The 75 elected hereditary peers". BBC News. 5 November 1999.
  5. "Viscount Waverley". House of Lords.
  6. "Lord Waverley personal website". Archived from the original on 24 July 2012.
  7. "Parliament Revealed".
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
David Anderson		 Viscount Waverley
1990–present		 Succeeded by
incumbent


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