John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley

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John Desmond Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley (born 31 October 1949) is a British peer.

The son of the 2nd Viscount Waverley and his wife Lorna Ledgerwood, he was educated at Malvern College.

Lord Waverley was first married to Anne Suzette Davidson in 1969. He then married Ursula Helen Barrow in 1994

He succeeded to his father's titles in 1990. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers in the House of Lords elected to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a cross-bencher.

He takes a particular interest in the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and works as a consultant to the Middle East Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC). He has been honoured with a Yoruba Chieftaincy in Nigeria and received State decorations from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Colombia.

Lord Waverley has set up the website Parliament Revealed, to explain the workings of the UK Parliament.

Arms

Coat of arms of John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley
Coronet A Coronet of a Viscount Crest A Demi Lion rampant Or armed and langued Azure holding in his dexter forepaw a Branch of Olive proper Escutcheon Argent a Saltire engrailed between a Mullet in chief and a Lotus Flower in base and in each flank a Crescent Gules on a Chief Sable three Martlets of the field Supporters On either side a Horse Argent crined and unguled Or Motto Beati Pacifi (Blessed are the peacemakers)

References

"Dowager Viscountess Waverley, widow of 2nd Viscount". Peerage News.
Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland
Cracroft's Peerage Database
"The 75 elected hereditary peers". BBC News. 5 November 1999.
"Viscount Waverley". House of Lords.
"Lord Waverley personal website".
"Parliament Revealed".

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded byDavid Anderson	Viscount Waverley 1990–present	Succeeded byincumbent

v t e Extant viscountcies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
Sorted by kingdom in which created, then creation date
England	Hereford
Scotland	Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird
Great Britain	Bolingbroke St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood
Ireland	Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden Ferrard Monck Gort
United Kingdom	St Vincent Melville Sidmouth Exmouth Combermere Hill Hardinge Bridport Portman Hampden Hambleden Knutsford Esher Goschen Ridley Colville of Culross Selby Knollys Allendale Chilston Scarsdale Mersey Cowdray Devonport Astor Wimborne St Davids Rothermere Allenby Chelmsford Long Ullswater Younger of Leckie Bearsted Craigavon Bridgeman Hailsham Brentford Buckmaster Bledisloe Hanworth Trenchard Samuel Runciman of Doxford Davidson Weir Caldecote Camrose Stansgate Margesson Daventry Addison Kemsley Marchwood Montgomery of Alamein Waverley Thurso Brookeborough Norwich Leathers Soulbury Chandos De L'Isle Monckton of Brenchley Tenby Mackintosh of Halifax Dunrossil Stuart of Findhorn Rochdale Slim Head Boyd of Merton Mills Blakenham Eccles Dilhorne
Italics: This title is held by a peer who holds another of higher precedence.

External links

lordwaverley.com

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