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{{Short description|British peer (1937–2024)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
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| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = The Lord Selsdon
| office1          = Member of the [[House of Lords]]
| status1          = Lord Temporal
| term_label1      = as a [[hereditary peer]]
| term_start1      = 30 July 1963
| term_end1        = 11 November 1999
| predecessor1     = [[Peter Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baron Selsdon|The 2nd Baron Selsdon]]
| successor1       = ''Seat abolished''{{thin space|{{efn|name=hla1999|Under the [[House of Lords Act 1999]].}}}}
| term_label2      = as an [[List of excepted hereditary peers|elected hereditary peer]]
| term_start2      = 11 November 1999
| term_end2        = 11 May 2021{{thin space|{{efn|Removed under Section 2 of the [[House of Lords Reform Act 2014]].}}}}
| predecessor2     = ''Seat established''{{thin space|{{efn|name=hla1999}}}}
| successor2       = [[Sebastian Grigg, 4th Baron Altrincham|The 4th Baron Altrincham]]
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1937|10|27|df=y}}
| birth_place      =
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2024|9|15|1937|10|27|df=y}}
| death_place      =
| party            = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
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'''Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson, 3rd Baron Selsdon''' (27 October 1937 – 15 September 2024) was a British peer, banker and businessman.<ref name=telegraphobit>{{cite web |title=Lord Selsdon, businessman, banker and Tory peer who once caused consternation in the DVLA |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/20/lord-selsdon-house-of-lords-conservative-obituary/ |website=The Telegraph |access-date=20 September 2024 |date=20 September 2024}}</ref> He sat in the [[House of Lords]] from 1963 to 2021, having been elected as one of the 90 [[hereditary peers]] who retained their seats after the passing of the [[House of Lords Act 1999]].
==Background==
The son of [[Peter Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baron Selsdon|Patrick William Malcolm Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baron Selsdon]] (1913−1963), and his first wife, Phoebette Swithinbank (d. 1991), Selsdon was educated at [[Winchester College]]. He served in the [[Royal Navy]] from 1956 to 1958, reaching the rank of [[sub-lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Naval Reserve]].<ref name=telegraphobit/>
Selsdon was married twice: in 1965 to Patricia Anne Smith (d. 2018); and in 1995, after divorcing his first wife, to Gabrielle Williams. He had one son, Callum Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson, 4th Baron Selsdon (b. 1969).<ref name=telegraphobit/>
Selsdon died on 15 September 2024, at the age of 86.<ref name=telegraphobit/><ref>{{cite news |title=Malcolm McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson, 3rd Baron Selsdon |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-october-2-2024-2vhjl5vts |access-date=2 October 2024 |publisher=The Times |date=2 October 2024}}</ref>
==Parliamentary career==
Having succeeded his father as [[Baron Selsdon]] at the age of 25, he took his seat in the [[House of Lords]] on 30 July 1963. He made his [[maiden speech]] on 9 December 1970 in a debate entitled ''Pollution and Protection of the Environment''. His next speech was in a debate on the ''[[European Economic Community|EEC]]: British entry negotiations'' on 19 January 1971. In his third speech he seconded the ''Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech'' by [[Evelyn Hester Macleod|Lady Macleod of Borve]] (widow of [[Iain Macleod]]) on 2 November 1971, an honour given him after he caught the eye of fellow [[Winchester College|Wykehamist]] and EEC enthusiast [[George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe|Lord Jellicoe]], [[Leader of the House of Lords]].<ref name=telegraphobit/>
Seldson was a delegate to the [[Council of Europe]] from 1972 to 1978. He chaired the Committee for Middle East Trade from 1979 to 1986 and was a member of the British Overseas Trade Board and the Eastern European Trade Council.<ref name=telegraphobit/>
He was one of the 90 [[hereditary peers]] elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the [[House of Lords Act 1999]], sitting as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]. His membership ended on 11 May 2021 due to non-attendance. At the time, in his 58th year of service, he was the second longest-serving member of the House of Lords after [[David Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne|Lord Trefgarne]].
==Business career==
Selsdon worked for the UAM Group from 1959 to 1963, for the [[London Press Exchange]] Group from 1964 to 1972 and for [[Singer & Friedlander]] from 1972 to 1976. Between 1976 and 1990 he was the director of international banking and public finance adviser for the [[Midland Bank Group]]. In addition, he worked from 1978 to 1998 with Merloni Group, from 1994 to 1998 for Raab Karcher and after 1996 for the MJ Gleeson Group. Between 1992 and 1998 he was president of the British Exporters' Association.<ref name=telegraphobit/>
==Other interests==
Selsdon was a keen sportsman − a player of rackets, squash and real and lawn tennis, as well as a skier and sailor − and he chaired the Greater London and South East Regional Council for Sport and Recreation from 1977 to 1983.<ref name=telegraphobit/> In 2001 he became president of the Anglo-Swiss Society, and in 2004 he was honorary treasurer and honorary secretary of the [[House of Lords Yacht Club]].<ref>''Register of Lords' Interests: as on 16 July 2004'' (Great Britain Parliament: House of Lords, 2004), p. 234.</ref>
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|escutcheon = Per pale Argent and Gules between three mascles a stag's head cabossed all counterchanged.
|crest = A dexter hand couped at the wrist Proper grasping a crosscrosslet fitchee in bend sinister Gules.
|supporters = Two seahorses Proper crined Sable finned Or.
|motto = Deus Providebit (God Will Provide)<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=4327}}</ref>}}
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==Sources==
*{{cite web| url= http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26704| title= DodOnline| access-date= 2007-02-09| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061003060725/http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26704| archive-date= 3 October 2006| url-status= dead}}
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