Viscount Monckton
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley |
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In Washington, D.C. (2009)
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 February 1952 |
| Political party |
Conservative (before 2009) UKIP (2009-present) |
| Spouse(s) | Juliet Mary Anne Malherbe Jensen |
| Relations | Rosa Monckton (sister), Timothy, Jonathan, and Anthony (brothers) |
| Parents | Major-General Gilbert Monckton (deceased) and Marianna Letitia Bower |
| Education | MA in classics, 1974; diploma in journalism studies |
| Alma mater |
Churchill College, Cambridge University College, Cardiff |
| Occupation | Politician, journalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British public speaker and hereditary peer. He is known for his work as a journalist, Conservative political advisor, UKIP political candidate, and for his invention of the mathematical puzzle Eternity.
Early on in his public speaking career topics centred on his mathematical puzzle and conservative politics. In recent years his public speaking has garnered attention due to his advocacy of climate change denial and his views on the European Union and social policy.
Monckton is the eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (1915–2006), and Marianna Letitia (née Bower), former High Sheriff of Kent, Dame of Malta (born 1929). He has three brothers, Timothy, Jonathan and Anthony, and a sister, Rosa, wife of the journalist Dominic Lawson.
Monckton was educated at Harrow School and Churchill College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. (Classics, 1974, now M.A.), and at University College, Cardiff, where he obtained a diploma in journalism studies. In 1990, he married Juliet Mary Anne Malherbe Jensen.
Monckton is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, an Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and a member of the Roman Catholic Mass Media Commission. He is also a qualified Day Skipper with the Royal Yachting Association, and has been a trustee of the Hales Trophy for the Blue Riband of the Atlantic since 1986.
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