Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell

Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell (born 4 March 1960) is a British hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords, sitting as a crossbencher.

He was educated at Eton College and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Prior to the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed all but 92 excepted hereditary peers from the house, he was an active member of the House of Lords.^[1] Lord Cromwell lost his seat due to the Act.

On 9 April 2014, he was elected to sit in the House of Lords at a crossbench hereditary peers' by-election, now making him one of the 92 excepted hereditary peers.^[2] He sits in the Lords as Lord Cromwell.

Coat of arms

Arms of Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell
Notes Coat of arms of the Bewicke-Copley family Coronet A coronet of a Baron Crest st: issuant from a Ducal Coronet Or a Plume of five Ostrich Feathers Argent (Copley); 2nd: A Goat's Head erased Argent armed maned and gorged with a Mural Crown Gules (Bewicke) Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Chief Gules overall a Bend Azure (Cromwell); 2nd and 3rd, Checky Or and Azure a Chief Ermine (Tatshall); overall an Inescutcheon quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Cross Moline Sable (Copley); 2nd and 3rd, Argent five Lozenges in fess Gules each charged with a Mullet of the field between three Boars' Heads erased Sable (Bewicke) Supporters On either side a Lion Sable each charged on the shoulder with a representation of the Treasurer's Purse Or (being the badge of Ralph Cromwell, 4th Baron Cromwell) Motto In Cruce Vinco (I conquer by the cross)

References

External links

Parliament's official website profile for Lord Cromwell

Peerage of England
Preceded by David Godfrey Bewicke-Copley	Baron Cromwell 1982–	Succeeded by Incumbent

Barons of England*

Ros Mowbray, Segrave & Stourton Hastings FitzWalter Clinton Clifford Zouche Willoughby de Eresby Strabolgi Dacre Darcy de Knayth Cromwell Camoys Grey of Codnor Berkeley Latymer Dudley Saye & Sele Berners Herbert Willoughby de Broke Vaux of Harrowden Braye Burgh Wharton St John of Bletso Howard de Walden Petre Dormer Teynham Strange Stafford Byron Lucas of Crudwell Arlington Clifford of Chudleigh Barnard

*Current substantive barons, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest

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