Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater

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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
15 February 2000
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Charles David Powell

(1941-07-06) 6 July 1941 (age 82)
Political partyCrossbench
Spouse
Carla Bonardi
​
(m. 1964)​
Children2
Alma materNew College, Oxford

Charles David Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater,

KCMG (born 6 July 1941) (/poʊl/, pronounced 'pole'[1]) is a British diplomat and businessman who served as a key foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
during the 1980s.

Early life and education

Son of

Modern History. One brother, Sir Chris Powell, is an advertiser; another, Jonathan, was chief of staff to Prime Minister Tony Blair
.

Career

Diplomatic

Charles Powell joined

Counsellor, to UKREP Brussels in 1980.[3] He was seconded to 10 Downing Street and served as Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher (1983 to 1990) and then as Private Secretary to John Major
(1990 to 1991). During his time working for Mrs Thatcher, he became one of her most trusted foreign policy aides.

Business

Since 1992 Powell has served on the boards of

China-Britain Business Council
and the Singapore British Business Council, as well as chairman of the British Government's Asia Task Force.

House of Lords

He currently sits as a

crossbench life peer in the House of Lords
. He is currently a member of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy.

Charities

He is chairman of the British Museum Trust, chairman of the Trustees of the Said Business School at Oxford University, and trustee of the Said Foundation, the Margaret Thatcher Scholarships at Oxford, the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust at Cambridge, chairman of the Atlantic Partnership and a member of King's College London Campaign Board.

Personal life

He married Carla Bonardi in 1964. They have two sons, born in 1967 and 1968.

He has three younger brothers,

NESTA), Roderick (Rod), and Jonathan, the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Tony Blair, a member of the Labour Party
.

Powell is an Honorary Fellow of the

Somerville College Oxford, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, a Visiting Professor at St Mary's University and has an honorary DSc from Shiv Nadar University in India.[4]

Honours

In the media

Powell has been interviewed for multiple documentaries about Margaret Thatcher and about foreign policy.

In popular culture

Powell was portrayed by

Margaret and by Dominic Rowan in Netflix's The Crown
'.

Arms

Coat of arms of Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater
Crest
With a chapeau Gules charged with three bezants turned up Argent plumed on the sinister side with a swan's wing Or a ruined square based tower of the Roman campagna also Or.[7]
Escutcheon
Quarterly Argent and Or on a chevron throughout Vert between three fleurs de lys Gules three mural crowns Or on a chief Azure three pigs passant Or winged Argent.
Supporters
On either side a lion Or that on the dexter supporting with the exterior foreclaws a shaft of palewise Argent entwined with oak leaves slipped Vert fructed Or and terminating in base a pheon reversed Argent and that on the sinister holding with the exterior foreclaws a lily slipped and leaved Proper.
Motto
Pedibus Stantibus

References

  1. ^ Pow-ell or Pole? The knotty problems of how to pronounce a tricky surname, *Daily Telegraph* 08 February 2016
  2. ^ "Air Vice-Marshal John Powell".
  3. ISBN 0-11-591707-1
    .
  4. ^ "King's News Centre - News Centre". King’s College London. 27 October 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  5. ^ "No. 52371". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 December 1990. p. 19582.
  6. ^ "No. 55769". The London Gazette. 21 February 2000. p. 1913.
  7. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2015. p. 997.

External links

Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Birt
 Life Peer
Baron Powell of Bayswater 		Followed by
The Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay
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