George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe

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George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, (also 2nd Viscount Jellicoe, of Scarpa, 2nd Viscount Brocas, of Southampton, and Baron Jellicoe of Southampton), KBE, DSO, MC, PC, FRS (born April 4, 1918), is the longest serving member of the House of Lords (thus probably the longest serving parliamentarian in the world) having succeeded his father, the First World War naval commander Lord Jellicoe, in 1935 and come of age and taken his seat in 1939. During the Second World War he served with and then commanded the Special Boat Section and was among the first Allied soldiers to enter German-occupied Athens.

He was Leader of the House of Lords from 1970 to 1973, when he admitted casual affairs with prostitutes and resigned. Shortly after this Jellicoe became chairman of the large sugar company Tate & Lyle.

From 1983 to 1986 he was Chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board.

Lord Jellicoe is a former chancellor of Southampton University and has been closely associated with research and higher education. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990.

When the House of Lords Act 1999 removed his right to sit in the House of Lords in right of his hereditary peerage, he was created a life peer as Baron Jellicoe of Southampton, of Southampton in the County of Hampshire, so that he could continue to sit in the Lords.

Twice married he has eight children.

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• Announcement of his taking the oath for the first time as Lord Jellicoe of Southampton, House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 23 November 1999

Political offices
Preceded by: The Lord Carrington	First Lord of the Admiralty 1963–1964	Succeeded by: Queen Elizabeth II (Lord High Admiral)
Preceded by: The Lord Shackleton	Lord Privy Seal 1970–1973	Succeeded by: The Lord Windlesham
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: John Jellicoe	Earl Jellicoe	Succeeded by: Current Incumbent