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Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden (Alistair Basil Cooke) was born on 20 April, 1945, is a Historian. Discover Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?
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Alistair Basil Cooke |
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Historian |
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79 years old |
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Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden worth at the age of 79 years old? Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden’s income source is mostly from being a successful Historian. He is from . We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Lexden is an occasional television guest presenter. In 2019, he presented a BBC TV programme called Prime Properties about former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Cooke was made a life peer as Baron Lexden, of Lexden in the County of Essex and of Strangford in the County of Down, on 23 December 2010 on the recommendation of Prime Minister David Cameron. He sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative.
Lord Lexden has been official historian of the Conservative Party since 2009; Consultant and Editor in Chief, Conservative Research Department since 2004 and official historian and archivist of the Carlton Club since 2007.
With the Conservative return to opposition in 1997, Cooke worked as General Secretary of the Independent Schools Council from 1997 to 2004 and later became President of the Independent Schools Association. He has also been a Governor of The John Lyon School Harrow from 1999 to 2005 and Patron of the Northern Ireland Schools Debating Competition since 2001. He is a frequent contributor The Times Letters and Obituary pages.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1988 New Year Honours. He was a founder, in 1997, and member since 2005 of the Conservative Party Archive Trust. He was Chairman of Trustees of the pressure group Friends of the Union between 1995 and 2003 and has been Senior Trustee of the T. E. Utley Memorial Fund since 2000.
Cooke worked as a desk officer within the Conservative Research Department from 1977 to 1983. During this period he served as political adviser to Airey Neave, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1977–79. He joined the Conservative Political Centre in 1983 as Assistant Director, becoming Deputy Director two years later and Director between 1988 and 1997.
Alistair Basil Cooke, Baron Lexden, OBE (born 20 April 1945) is a British historian, author and politician who sits as a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
Cooke was born on 20 April 1945, second son of Dr Basil Cooke and Nancy Irene Cooke (née Neal). He was educated at the independent Framlingham College, Suffolk. He went on to study at Peterhouse, Cambridge, from which he graduated Master of Arts (MA Cantab) in 1970. He was a lecturer and tutor in modern history at The Queen's University of Belfast from 1971 to 1977 and was awarded a PhD from that institution in 1979.