Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange
Member of the House of Lords | |
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as a hereditary peer 10 December 1986 – 11 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | The 15th Baron Strange |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 – 11 March 2005 | |
Election | 1999 |
Preceded by | Seat established |
Succeeded by | The 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein |
Baroness Strange | |
In office 1986 – 11 March 2005 | |
Preceded by | John Drummond |
Succeeded by | Adam Drummond |
Personal details | |
Born | Jean Cherry Drummond 17 December 1928 Cross bench |
Spouse |
Humphrey Evans (m. 1952) |
Children | 6, including Adam Drummond, 17th Baron Strange |
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Occupation | Peer, writer |
Jean Cherry Drummond of Megginch, 16th Baroness Strange (
Personal life
Strange was educated at
- Adam Humphrey Drummond, 17th Baron Strange (b. 1953)
- Hon Charlotte Cherry Drummond (b. 1955)
- Hon Humphrey John Jardine Drummond (b. 1961)
- Hon Amelie Margaret Mary Drummond (b. 1963)
- married in 1990 with Philippe de MacMahon, 4th Duc de Magenta
- Hon John Humphrey Hugo Drummond (b. 1966)
- Hon Catherine Star Violetta Drummond (b. 1967)
In April 2006 it emerged that Lady Strange had changed her
The actress Geraldine Somerville is her niece.
Title
Although the family home is the 17th century Megginch Castle in Perthshire, Scotland, the family title, Baron Strange, is in the English peerage. Her father, John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange, had spent many years attempting to terminate an abeyance that arose on the death of the Duke of Atholl in 1957; he was confirmed in the title in 1965. The title went into abeyance once again on his death in 1982, but it was terminated in Cherry's favour in 1986, and she made her maiden speech on 4 March 1987. Upon the Baroness's death the title was inherited by her eldest son, Adam.
Politics and public life
She held traditional conservative views, but resigned the Conservative Party whip in December 1998 when William Hague dismissed Lord Cranborne for negotiating with Tony Blair on reform of the House of Lords. Following reforms which reduced the number of hereditary peers who were entitled to sit in the House of Lords, her 1999 manifesto to be elected to occupy one of the remaining seats (limited to 75 words) was "I bring flowers every week to this House from my castle in Perthshire." She was elected to fill a cross bench seat.
She was President of the War Widows Association of Great Britain from 1990.[1]
Writing
Strange wrote several
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0792372516,
- ^ Langdon, Julia (1 April 2005) Obituary Baroness Strange The Guardian, Retrieved 25 January 2015
- ^ Lundy, Darryl (17 January 2015) Jean Cherry Drummond of Megginch, Baroness Strange The Peerage, Retrieved 25 January 2015
- ^ Hamilton, Alan; English, Shirley (20 April 2006). "Strange case of the baroness who rewrote £3m will on her deathbed". The Times. London. Retrieved 5 September 2008.