Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley

Who is Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley?

Anthony Fitzhardinge Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley and Baron Gueterbock, OBE, CEng, MICE, Hon FIMechE, Hon DSc, FRSA, FCIT, also known as Tony Berkeley, is a British Labour politician. He is both an English hereditary peer and a life peer.

After being educated at Eton College, Gueterbock went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA. He then embarked upon a career in civil engineering, joining George Wimpey plc where he worked as an engineer until 1985. For the next ten years he worked as an engineer for Eurotunnel '85–'95.

Gueterbock inherited his ancestors' ancient title of Baron Berkeley in 1992, succeeding his aunt Mary Foley-Berkeley, 17th Baroness Berkeley. Berkeley was created a Life Peer too in 2000 as Baron Gueterbock, of Cranford in the London Borough of Hillingdon so as to remain sitting as a Labour peer in the House of Lords, following the removal of hereditary peers' automatic right to seats in Parliament.

Since Lord Berkeley first entered the House of Lords in 1992, he has held the positions of Opposition Spokesperson for Transport 1996-97 and Opposition Whip 1996-97.