The Lord Fairhaven | |
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Born | 16 November 1936 |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/branch | British Army |
Rank | Major |
Commands held | Royal Horse Guards |
Awards | Order of the White Rose of Finland |
Ailwyn Henry George Broughton, 3rd Baron Fairhaven (born 16 November 1936), is a British peer and equestrian.
Lord Fairhaven was the son of The Rt Hon. Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven, and The Hon. Diana Rosamond Fellowes: his maternal grandfather was The 2nd Baron de Ramsey. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
On 2 August 1957, he commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards, and served in the regiment until his retirement with the rank of Major in 1971. In 1970 he was invested as a Knight as the Order of the White Rose of Finland. In 1973 he was Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, and on 6 April 1973 he succeeded his father as Baron Fairhaven and assumed his seat in the House of Lords as a Conservative.
In 1975, Lord Fairhaven was a Justice of the Peace in Cambridgeshire, and between 1977 and 1984 he served as Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. From 1985 to 1989, Lord Fairhaven was Senior Steward of the Jockey Club. In 1992 he was invested as a Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.