Sir Mark Alexander Lennox-Boyd (born 4 May 1943) is a British Conservative politician and a son of the 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton.
Lennox-Boyd was MP for Morecambe and Lonsdale from 1979 to 1983, and the (slightly renamed) Morecambe and Lunesdale from 1983 until his defeat by Labour's Geraldine Smith in 1997. He served as a government whip and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
He is married to Arabella Parisi (born 1938), who is better known as Arabella Lennox-Boyd. They have a daughter, Patricia Irene Lennox-Boyd born 13 August 1980. Lady Lennox-Boyd was born in Italy, but left to settle in England where she later undertook a course in Landscape Architecture at Thames Polytechnic, which went on to become part of the University of Greenwich.
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by Alfred Hall-Davis |
Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lonsdale 1979–1983 |
Succeeded by (constituency renamed) |
Preceded by (constituency renamed) |
Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale 1983–1997 |
Succeeded by Geraldine Smith |