John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Waverley
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
21 February 1990 – 11 November 1999
as a hereditary peer
Preceded byThe 2nd Viscount Waverley
Succeeded bySeat abolished [a] 
In office
11 November 1999 – 23 June 2025 [b] 
as an elected hereditary peer
Preceded bySeat established [a] 
Personal details
Born (1949-10-31) 31 October 1949
Political partyCrossbencher
EducationMalvern College

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

The son of the 2nd Viscount Waverley and his wife Lorna Ledgerwood,[1] he was educated at Malvern College.[2]

Lord Waverley was first married to Anne Suzette Davidson in 1969. He then married Ursula Helen Barrow in 1994.[3]

He succeeded to his father's titles in 1990. He was one of the ninety hereditary peers in the House of Lords elected to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999,[4] sitting as a crossbencher until his retirement on 23 June 2025.[5]

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).[6] He has been honoured with a Yoruba Chieftaincy in Nigeria and received State decorations from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Colombia.[7]

Lord Waverley has set up the website Parliament Revealed, to explain the workings of the UK Parliament.[8]

Lord Waverley retired from the House of Lords on 23 June 2025.

Arms

Coat of arms of John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley
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
Two horses Argent crined and unguled Or.[9]
Motto
Beati Pacifi (Blessed Are The Peacemakers)

Notes

  1. ^ a b Pursuant to the House of Lords Act 1999.
  2. ^ Retired under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

References

  1. ^ "Dowager Viscountess Waverley, widow of 2nd Viscount". Peerage News. 20 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
  3. ^ "Cracroft's Peerage Database". Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  4. ^ "The 75 elected hereditary peers". BBC News. 5 November 1999.
  5. ^ "Viscount Waverley | Parliamentary career". House of Lords. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  6. ^ "Viscount Waverley | Focus areas". House of Lords. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  7. ^ "Lord Waverley personal website". Archived from the original on 24 July 2012.
  8. ^ "Parliament Revealed".
  9. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 4725.


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