Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick

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| office1 = Member of the House of Lords

| status1 = Lord Temporal

| term_label1 = as a hereditary peer

| term_start1 = 30 July 1996

| term_end1 = 11 November 1999

| predecessor1 = The 2nd Baron Rotherwick

| successor1 = Seat abolished

| term_label2 = as an elected hereditary peer

| term_start2 = 11 November 1999

| term_end2 = 1 February 2022Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

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| 1namedata2 = 1999

| predecessor2 = Seat established

| successor2 = The 5th Viscount Camrose

| birth_name = Herbert Robin Cayzer

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| birth_place = Tynley Hall

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| residence = Cornbury Park

| nationality = English

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| education = Harrow School

| alma_mater = Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester

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| party = Conservative

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{{marriage|Sara Jane McAlpine|1982|1994|end=divorce}}
{{marriage|Tania Jane Fox|2000}}}}

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Herbert Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick (born 12 March 1954), is a British landowner and estate manager. He sat as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords for the Conservative Party, from 1996 until his retirement in 2022.{{cite web |title=Parliamentary career for Lord Rotherwick |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/2143/career |access-date=14 April 2022}}

Early life

Robin Cayzer was born on 12 March 1954. He is the son of Herbert Cayzer, 2nd Baron Rotherwick (1912-1996), chairman of Caledonia Investments and British and Commonwealth Shipping and a Major of the Royal Scots Guards during the Second World War,[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp96039/herbert-robin-cayzer-2nd-baron-rotherwick Herbert, 2nd Lord Rotherwick at www.npg.org.uk] and Sarah Jane (1933-1978), daughter of Sir Michael Nial Slade, 6th Baronet.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 3646 He spent his early childhood at Bletchingdon Park, a Palladian country house in Oxfordshire.{{cite news|last=Koenig|first=Chris|title=Profile: Cornbury Park|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/business/profiles/8634929.Cornbury_Park/|access-date=30 November 2013|newspaper=Oxford Times|date=18 November 2010}} When he was 13, the family moved to Cornbury Park, in the same county, where he still lives.

He attended Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was further educated at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, where he graduated with a Diploma in Agriculture (GDA) in 1982.

Career

Between 1973 and 1976, Cayzer was Acting Captain of The Life Guards and between 1977 and 1983, of the Household Cavalry. He worked for Barings Bank from 1976 to 1978 and for Bristol Helicopters from 1978 to 1980.

A qualified pilot, he represented the Popular Flying Association as a member of the executive committee from 1997 to 2001, and as vice-chairman from 1999 to 2001. He is also president of the General Aviation Awareness Council and a director of the Light Aviation Association.{{cite web|title=House of Lords profiles|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-rotherwick/2143|publisher=House of Lords|access-date=30 November 2013}}

In 1996, he succeeded to his father's peerage title, and took up his seat in Britain's upper chamber as a Conservative. The passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 saw him elected as one of the 92 hereditary peers to remain in their seats for life. His areas of interest are listed as agriculture, animals, food and rural affairs; aviation; defence; energy and environment.

In 2005, he became a Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust. He belongs to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Motorcycling.[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/memi01.htm Register of All-Party Groups, p. 416] He is also a Patron of the National Association for Bikers with a Disability.[http://www.nabd.org.uk/supporters/patrons.htm NABD Patrons] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928032731/http://www.nabd.org.uk/supporters/patrons.htm |date=28 September 2011 }}, accessed 27 May 2009

Since 2004, he has been board director of Cayzer Continuation PCC Ltd and since 2006, non-active chairman of Air Touring Ltd. According to his register of interests on the House of Lords website, he is a director of Cornbury Estates Company Limited and Cornbury Maintenance Company Ltd (both described as property companies) and of Bygone Engineering.{{cite web|title=House of Lords profiles|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-rotherwick/2143|publisher=House of Lords|access-date=30 November 2013}} Cornbury Park has about 5,000 acres of land, including part of the old royal forest of Wychwood. Cayzer has developed business units for rental there, and hosts the Wilderness Festival music festival.{{cite news|last=Koenig|first=Chris|title=Profile: Cornbury Park|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/business/profiles/8634929.Cornbury_Park/|access-date=30 November 2013|newspaper=Oxford Times|date=18 November 2010}}

Personal life

On 6 March 1982, Cayzer married Sara Jane, daughter of Robert James McAlpine (great-grandson of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, civil engineer and founder of Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd);Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 2446 they had three children before divorcing in 1994.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 3412 On 21 June 2000, he married secondly Tania Jane, daughter of Christopher Fox;Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Charles Kidd, Christine Shaw, Debrett's Ltd, 2011, p. 1350{{cite news|title=Lady Rotherwick is at home in the Wilderness|url=https://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/music/10603024.Lady_Rotherwick_is_at_home_in_the_Wilderness/|newspaper=Oxford Times}} they have two children.

Lord Rotherwick succeeded to the Cayzer baronetcy of Gartmore on the death of his kinsman Sir James Arthur Cayzer, 5th Baronet, on 27 February 2012.

Rotherwick is the brother-in-law of Canadian prime minister Mark Carney. (Carney's wife is environmental policy expert Diana Fox Carney, who is the sister of Rotherwick's wife Tania.){{cite news |last1=Waldie |first1=Paul |title=Mark Carney not only played goal for the Oxford Blues hockey team, he also managed it |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-bank-of-england-gets-a-goaltender/article12895944/ |access-date=14 March 2025 |work=The Globe & Mail |date=28 June 2013}}

References

{{s-ttl|title=Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999|years=1999–2022}}

{{s-ttl | title = Baron Rotherwick | years = 1996–present|lords=1996–1999}}

Category:1954 births

Category:Cayzer family

Category:Living people

Category:Nobility from Oxfordshire

Category:People educated at Harrow School

Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Category:Alumni of the Royal Agricultural University

Category:Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Category:British Life Guards officers

Category:British philanthropists

Category:Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers

Category:Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999

Category:Peers retired under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014