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Viscount Slim

Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Viscount Slim, of Yarralumla in the Capital Territory of Australia and of Bishopston in the City and County of Bristol, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Viscount slim biography of martin He was badly wounded at Gallipoli, and later served in France and Mesopotamia. In Slim was given the rank of captain in the British Indian Army, in which he served with Gurkha regiments until He taught at Camberley Military College from to In he was promoted to brigadier and became head of the Senior Officers' School at Belgaum, India. He was wounded again in Eritrea.

It was created in for Field MarshalSir William Slim upon the end of his term as Governor-General of Australia.[1]

Until , the title was held by his son, the second Viscount, who succeeded in and was one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act of , and sat as a crossbencher.

His son, the 3rd Viscount, is a chartered surveyor and a director of malt suppliers Muntons plc.

Viscount Slim ()

Present peer

Mark William Rawdon Slim, 3rd Viscount Slim (born 13 February ), is the son of the 2nd Viscount and his wife Elisabeth Joan Spinney.[2]

He was educated at Eton College and the University of Bristol and in was using an address at 15 Basinghall Street in the City of London.[2] He is a chartered surveyor working in the commercial property industry, based in the City of London, an executive director of CBRE Group, a non-executive director of Muntons PLC and Oakley Properties, and chairman of the Burma Star Memorial Fund.[3]

On 12 January , he succeeded as Viscount Slim, of Yarralumla in the Australian Capital Territory and of Bishopston in the City and County of Bristol (created ).[2]

With his wife Harriet Laura Harrison he has three sons:[2]

  • Rufus William Rawdon Slim (born )
  • William James Harrison Slim (born )
  • Kit Cosmo John Slim (born )

In Slim was living in Dorset with his wife and sons.[3]

Line of succession

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors).

    Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage ( edition). New York: St Martin's Press,