Sir Mark Alexander Lennox-Boyd (born 4 May 1943) is a British

United Kingdom

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 Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician and a son of the 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton

Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton

Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, CH, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician.-Background, education and military service:...

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Lennox-Boyd was MP

Member of Parliament

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 for Morecambe and Lonsdale

Morecambe and Lunesdale

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 from 1979 to 1983, and the (slightly renamed) Morecambe and Lunesdale from 1983 until his defeat by Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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's Geraldine Smith

Geraldine Smith

Maria Geraldine Smith is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale from 1997 to 2010.-Early life:...

 in 1997

United Kingdom general election, 1997

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. He served as a government whip

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 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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He is married to Arabella Parisi (born 1938), who is better known as Arabella Lennox-Boyd

Arabella Lennox-Boyd

Arabella Lennox-Boyd , Lady Lennox-Boyd is an Italian-born English garden designer.-Background:Born in Rome as Arabella Parisi, she is a daughter of Piero Parisi and a granddaughter of a Marshal of Italy, General Armando Diaz, 1st Duke della Vittoria...

. 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

Landscape architecture

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 at Thames Polytechnic, which went on to become part of the University of Greenwich

University of Greenwich

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