The Lord Berkeley | |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Sutton, Surrey, UK |
20 September 1939
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | Julia née Clarke |
Relations | Earls of Berkeley |
Alma mater |
Eton College Trinity College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Civil engineer ; parliamentarian |
Website | www.parliament.uk |
Anthony Fitzhardinge Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley, OBE, CEng, MICE, FRSA, FCIT, Hon FIMechE, Hon DSc (born 20 September 1939), otherwise known as Tony Berkeley, is a British and Labour parliamentarian.
Holder of an ancient English hereditary peerage title created in 1421, Lord Berkeley sits in the House of Lords by virtue of being created a Life Peer in 2000.
Of German patrilineal descent, the Güterbocks hailed from Berlin and its environs in former East Germany.
His mother, The Hon. Cynthia Ella Foley (1909-1991), married 4 Aug 1937 Brigadier Ernest Gueterbock, after which she was styled The Hon. Mrs Gueterbock. The younger of the two daughters of the 16th Baroness Berkeley MBE, her elder sister succeeded as Mary, 17th Baroness Berkeley (died 1992).
Gueterbock was educated at Eton College, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a BA (proceeding MA). He then took a career in civil engineering with George Wimpey plc as an engineer until 1985. For the next ten years he worked as an engineer for Eurotunnel 1985–95.