David Montague de Burgh Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi (1 November 1914 – 24 December 2010) was a Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 peer and the holder of one of Scotland's most ancient titles of nobility.

Education

Strabolgi was educated at Gresham's School

Gresham's School

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, Holt

Holt, Norfolk

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, and the Chelsea School of Art

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.

Appointments

• Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
  Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
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  : 11 March 1974 to 3 May 1979
• Deputy Chief Whip
  Whip (politics)
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   of the Labour Party
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
   in the House of Lords
  House of Lords
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  : 1974 to 1979

Title

The title of Baron Strabolgi

Baron Strabolgi

The title Baron Strabolgi in the Peerage of England was drawn out of abeyance in 1916; whether it ever existed before then is open to serious dispute. Complete Peerage declines to list it, on the grounds that it did not exist before the twentieth century; their coverage ends with the death of Queen...

 was created in 1318 for the tenth Earl of Atholl. The barony twice went into long periods of abeyance, during which no claim to hold it could be established, the second of these lasting for over three hundred years.

The second period of abeyance was terminated in 1916 in favour of Cuthbert Kenworthy, the grandfather of the 11th Baron Strabolgi, who succeeded Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi

Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi

Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi , was a Liberal Member of Parliament and later a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.-Education and Naval Service:...

 in 1953.

Death

Strabolgi died on 24 December 2010, at the age of 96. He was succeeded in the barony by his nephew, Andrew D.W. Kenworthy (born 1967), who became the 12th Baron Strabolgi.

Sources

• The Complete Peerage, (1998)
• Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th Edition (1999)
• Lord Strabolgi at thepeerage.com
• Labour members of the House of Lords
• Strabolgi on Wilde