Viscount Eccles, of Chute

Chute, Wiltshire

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 in the County of Wiltshire

Wiltshire

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, England, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1964 for the Conservative

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 politician David Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles

David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles

David McAdam Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles and 1st Viscount Eccles, CH, KCVO, MP, PC was an English Conservative politician....

. He had already been created Baron Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, in 1962. the titles are held by his son, the second Viscount, who succeeded in 1999. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

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s that remain in the House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

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, and sits as a Conservative. His wife Diana Eccles

Diana Eccles, Viscountess Eccles

Diana Catherine Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, Baroness Eccles and Baroness Eccles of Moulton DL is a British noble and businesswoman.-Education and early career:...

 was created a life peer

Life peer

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 as Baroness Eccles of Moulton, of Moulton in the County of North Yorkshire, in 1990, making the couple an unusual husband and wife pair both sitting in the House of Lords. Lady Eccles of Moulton also sits on the Conservative benches.

The present Lord Eccles and his family are life tenants of Moulton Hall

Moulton Hall

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, Moulton, near Richmond, North Yorkshire

Richmond, North Yorkshire

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, a 17th-century house, the property of the National Trust

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. The actual manor house, the former Moulton Hall, burned to the ground in 1921.

Viscounts Eccles (1964)

• David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
  David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
  David McAdam Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles and 1st Viscount Eccles, CH, KCVO, MP, PC was an English Conservative politician....
  
   (1904–1999)
• John Dawson Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles
  John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles
  John Dawson Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles CBE is a British peer and businessman. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999....
  
   (b. 1931)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. William David Eccles (b. 1960)