The Right Honourable
The Lord Cromwell
Cromwell in 2019
Member of the House of Lords
as a hereditary peer
18 August 1982 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 6th Baron Cromwell
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
10 April 2014
Preceded byThe 2nd Baron Moran
Personal details
Born
Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley

(1960-03-04) 4 March 1960
Political partycrossbench
Alma materEton College
Selwyn College, Cambridge

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

Coat of arms of Godfrey 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

  1. ↑ "Mr Godfrey Bewicke-Copley (Hansard)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Crossbench Hereditary Peers' By-election, April 2014: Result" (PDF). Parliament.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
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