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Christopher Soames, Baron Soames

The Right Honourable
The Lord Soames
GCMG GCVO CH CBE PC
Governor of Southern Rhodesia
In office
11 December 1979 – 18 April 1980
Monarch Elizabeth II
Preceded by Sir Humphrey Gibbs
Josiah Zion Gumede (President of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia)
Succeeded by Canaan Banana (President of Zimbabwe)
Leader of the House of Lords
In office
5 May 1979 – 14 September 1981
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by The Lord Peart
Succeeded by The Baroness Young
Lord President of the Council
In office
5 May 1979 – 14 September 1981
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Michael Foot
Succeeded by Francis Pym
European Commissioner for External Relations
In office
6 January 1973 – 5 January 1977
President François-Xavier Ortoli
Preceded by Jean-François Deniau
Succeeded by Wilhelm Haferkamp
European Commissioner for Trade
In office
6 January 1973 – 5 January 1977
President François-Xavier Ortoli
Preceded by Ralf Dahrendorf
Succeeded by Wilhelm Haferkamp
British Ambassador to France
In office
September 1968 – 27 October 1972
Preceded by Patrick Reilly
Succeeded by Edward Tomkins
Shadow Foreign Secretary
In office
11 November 1965 – 13 April 1966
Prime Minister Ted Heath
Preceded by Reginald Maudling
Succeeded by Alec Douglas-Home
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office
27 July 1960 – 16 October 1964
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by John Hare
Succeeded by Fred Peart
Secretary of State for War
In office
6 January 1958 – 27 July 1960
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Preceded by John Hare
Succeeded by John Profumo
Member of Parliament
for Bedford
In office
23 February 1950 – 31 March 1966
Preceded by Tom Skeffington-Lodge
Succeeded by Brian Parkyn
Personal details
Born Arthur Christopher John Soames
(1920-10-12)12 October 1920
Penn, England, UK
Died 16 September 1987(1987-09-16) (aged 66)
Odiham, England, UK
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Mary Churchill
Alma mater Royal Military College, Sandhurst

Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames GCMG GCVO CH CBE PC (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British politician belonging to the Conservative Party and the son-in-law of Winston Churchill. A European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia, he had previously been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966. He held several government posts and attained Cabinet rank.

Soames was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire, England, the son of Captain Arthur Granville Soames (the brother of Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide, both descendants of a brewing family which had joined the landed gentry) by his marriage to Hope Mary Woodbine Parish. His parents divorced while he was a boy, and his mother married as her second husband the 8th Baron Dynevor (a descendant of the 1st and last Earl Talbot), by whom she had further children including Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor.


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