![]() ![]() Lord Sudeley was also a Vice-president of the now-defunct Western Goals Institute. L to R: Denis Walker, Sudeley, José Manuel Pacas Castro ( El Salvador's Foreign Minister), Andrew Smith (yellow tie), Dr. Īt the Western Goals Institute 'El Salvador' Dinner, London, 25 September 1989. However, six weeks later, after becoming leader, he publicly distanced the party from the Monday Club until it ceased to "promulgate or discuss policies relating to race" he also indicated that no Conservative MPs should contribute to Right Now!, a quarterly magazine of which Lord Sudeley was a Patron, after an article in it described Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist". In September 2001, the Conservative Party leadership candidate Iain Duncan Smith said the Monday Club was a "viable organisation… in a sense what the party is about". It also reported him saying that "True though the fact may be that some races are superior to others", going on to suggest that such rhetoric might interfere with the Monday Club's hopes of being accepted again in Conservative Party circles. On 2 June 2006, The Times quoted him as stating, in a report of the Monday Club's Annual General Meeting, that " Hitler did well to get everyone back to work". Sudelely's reputation was possibly damaged by racist comments he made in speeches and reports. He wrote for them a leading essay on "The Role of Heredity in Politics", produced a Club Policy Paper against Lords Reform in December 1979, and in 1991 they published his booklet titled, and arguing for, The Preservation of the House of Lords, with a foreword by parliamentarian John Stokes. Since the early 1970s, Hanbury-Tracy had been active in the notorious Conservative Monday Club of which he became president in February 1991. In 1985 he was elected a Vice-Chancellor of the reactionary International Monarchist League. He also claimed that the House of Lords had developed a 'wealth of experience', though he did not specify the exact nature of this expertise or why it was not replicable. Hanbury-Tracyclaimed the House of Lords should be left unreformed, declaring that "If it isn't broken why mend it?" He also said that since he believed inherited titles were "inextricably" tied to the monarchy that it was "odd that they just want to touch one institution and not the other". Faced with losing his hereditary position, Hanbury-Tracy opposed democratic reforms to the House of Lords. ![]() Hanbury-Tracy was one of the unelected hereditary peers expelled from the Upper House by the House of Lords Act 1999. He was a regular attender and introduced several measures, most notably the Bill to prevent the unlicensed export of historical manuscripts and, in 1981, a Bill to uphold the Book of Common Prayer.Įxpulsion from the House of Lords He inherited his peerage aged 2, and finally took his seat in the House at the age of 21. Lord Sudeley was a member of the House of Lords for 39 years. He served his National Service obligations in the ranks of the Scots Guards. Hanbury-Tracy was also sometimes an adjunct lecturer at the University of Bristol. He later graduated in History from Worcester College, Oxford. Hanbury-Tracy's parents paid for him to attend Eton College, a local private school in Windsor, England. ![]() Hill, the Royal North Devon Hussars, commander of the 2/5 battalion of Sherwood Foresters, who was also killed by a sniper at Villers-Plouich, France, on 8 July 1917. Merlin Hanbury-Tracy was born on 17 June 1939 to Captain Michael Hanbury-Tracy, a Scots Guards officer, who died from wounds received at Dunkirk, and Colline Annabel, only daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Collis George Herbert St. He was Vice-Chancellor of the International Monarchist League, and President of the Traditional Britain Group until death. A member of the Conservative Party all his adult life, he was also sometimes President and Chairman of the Conservative Monday Club for seventeen years. Hanbury-Tracy's reputation was severely damaged in later life by racist comments he made in reports and speeches, alongside comments he made praised the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. In 1941, at the age of two, he succeeded his first cousin once removed, Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 6th Baron Sudeley, to the Barony of Sudeley and until the reforms of House of Lords Act 1999, he regularly sat as a hereditary peer. Merlin Hanbury-Tracy (also known as Merlin Charles Sainthill Hanbury-Tracy), FSA (17 June 1939 – 5 September 2022 ) was a hereditary British peer, author, and monarchist. ![]()
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