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Colin Moynihan

The Right Honourable
The Lord Moynihan
Chairman of the British Olympic Association
In office
5 October 2005 – 7 November 2012
Preceded by Craig Reedie
Succeeded by The Lord Coe
Minister for Sport
In office
22 June 1987 – 26 July 1990
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Richard Tracey
Succeeded by Robert Atkins
Member of Parliament
for Lewisham East
In office
9 June 1983 – 9 April 1992
Preceded by Roland Moyle
Succeeded by Bridget Prentice
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
30 May 1997
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by Antony Moynihan (1991)
Personal details
Born (1955-09-13) 13 September 1955 (age 61)
Surrey, England
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Gaynor-Louise (née Metcalf)
Children 2 sons (Nicholas and George); 1 daughter (India)
Alma mater University College, Oxford
Occupation Company Director
Profession Sports administrator/ Parliamentarian/ Businessman
Religion Anglican
Colin Moynihan
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1980 Moscow Men's Eight
World Rowing Championships
Silver medal – second place 1981 Munich Men's Eight

Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan (born 13 September 1955) is a British Olympic coxswain, businessman, Conservative politician and sports administrator. Lord Moynihan served as chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) from 2005–2012.

Moynihan is the son of Patrick Moynihan, 2nd Baron Moynihan, by his second wife June Elizabeth Hopkins, daughter of Arthur Stanley Covacic Hopkins. He was educated in the state system, including at secondary level, but studied at Monmouth School with a Music Scholarship from 1968 to 1973.

In 1974 he went up to University College, Oxford, graduating in 1977 with a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (proceeding MA in 1982). He was a "double blue" coxing the victorious Oxford University crew in the 1977 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and boxing against Cambridge in the Bantamweight division. He beat Benazir Bhutto in the election for the Presidency of the Oxford Union in 1976 and won the Trans-Atlantic Universities Debating Competition the same year. In 1977, he was awarded the Fiddian Post-Graduate Research Scholarship in Politics at Brasenose College, Oxford, which he did not take up in favour of working at the Westburn sugar refinery in Greenock for Tate & Lyle.


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