Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas


Ralph Matthew Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas and 8th Lord Dingwall is one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a Conservative.

Biography

Lucas is the son of the Anne Palmer, 11th Baroness Lucas and 7th Lady Dingwall and Major Hon Robert Jocelyn Palmer. He attended Twyford School and Eton College and studied physics at Balliol College, Oxford. He then took articles as a chartered accountant and worked at S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd. from 1976 to 1988.
On the death of his mother in 1991, he succeeded her as 12th Baron Lucas and 8th Lord Dingwall. He is the current owner of The Good Schools Guide.
He was a Lord in Waiting during 1994–97, and the shadow Lords minister for International Development during 1997–98.
Lord Lucas is on the Advisory Board of A.C. Grayling's New College of the Humanities.
He became a Fellow of Charter Accountants in 1976 and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.

Marriages and children

Lucas has been married three times. Firstly, he married Clarrissa Marie Lockett on 22 July 1978. They were divorced in 1995 after having two children:
Secondly, Lucas married Amanda Atha in 1995. She died in 2000 and in 2001 he married Antonia Kennedy Rubinstein. He has one daughter with his third wife.