Christopher James, 5th Baron Northbourne

The Lord Northbourne
Northbourne in Parliament, 2016
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
5 November 1982 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 4th Baron Northbourne
Succeeded bySeat abolished[a]
as an elected hereditary peer
11 November 1999 – 4 September 2018 [1]
Preceded bySeat established[a]
Succeeded byThe 7th Baron Carrington
Personal details
Born
Christopher George Walter James

(1926-02-18)18 February 1926
Died8 September 2019(2019-09-08) (aged 93)
Northbourne, England
NationalityBritish
Children4
ParentWalter James, 4th Baron Northbourne
EducationEton College
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
OccupationFarmer, businessman, and peer

Christopher George Walter James, 5th Baron Northbourne, 6th Baronet, DL, FRICS (18 February 1926 – 8 September 2019), was a British farmer and aristocrat. He was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 until his retirement in 2018, and sat as a crossbencher.


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  1. ^ Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.