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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

References

1. "Dowager Viscountess Waverley, widow of 2nd Viscount". Peerage News.
2. Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland
3. Cracroft's Peerage Database
4. "The 75 elected hereditary peers". BBC News. 5 November 1999.
5. However, he was granted leave of absence from the House of Lords on 06 November 2013, so is no longer a sitting peer, ergo he is not able to function as an elected peer. He has suspended himself. Below is from from the House's Companion to Standing Orders: LEAVE OF ABSENCE
   • 1.27 Members of the House are to attend the sittings of the House. If they cannot attend, they should obtain leave of absence. At any time during a Parliament, a member of the House may obtain leave of absence for the rest of the Parliament by applying in writing to the Clerk of the Parliaments.
   • 1.28 Before the beginning of every Parliament the Clerk of the Parliaments writes to those members who were on leave of absence at the end of the preceding Parliament to ask whether they wish to renew that leave of absence for the new Parliament. In addition, at the start of each session of Parliament the Clerk of the Parliaments writes to those members (other than bishops) who attended very infrequently in the previous session, inviting them to apply for Leave of Absence.
   • 1.29 The House grants leave of absence to those who apply. The House also grants leave to all members to whom the Clerk of the Parliaments has written as described in the preceding paragraph who fail to reply within three months of the Clerk of the Parliaments' letter being sent.
   • 1.30 Directions relating to those on leave of absence are as follows:
   (a) members of the House who have been granted leave of absence should not attend sittings of the House or of any committee of the House until their leave has expired or been terminated, except to take the oath of allegiance; (b) members of the House on leave of absence who wish to attend during the period for which leave was granted should give notice in writing to the Clerk of the Parliaments at least three months before the day on which they wish to attend; and their leave is terminated three months from the date of this notice, or sooner if the House so directs; (c) a member of the House on leave of absence may not act as a supporter in the ceremony of introduction; (d) a member of the House on leave of absence may not vote in the election of the Lord Speaker or in by-elections for hereditary peers.
6. "Viscount Waverley". House of Lords.
7. "Lord Waverley personal website".
8. "Parliament Revealed".

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
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• lordwaverley.com

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