Biography
Chalfont was educated at West Monmouth School, and subsequently at the School of Slavonic Studies in the University of London. He was a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1964 to 1970 and appointed to the Privy Council in the former year. He is the author of several military history books on subjects including the Napoleonic Wars.
Having been created Baron Chalfont, of Llantarnam in the County of Monmouthshire on 11 November 1964, his life peerage is the most senior extant (since the death of Lord Shawcross in 2003), and Lord Chalfont is higher in the order of precedence than several hereditary barons whose inherited titles postdate his.
He contributed an article on The Strategic Defence Initiative to the Conservative Monday Club's October 1985 Conservative Party Conference issue of their newspaper, Right Ahead. Lord Chalfont is a former chairman of the Radio Authority which regulated commercial radio in the UK until its role was absorbed by Ofcom. Lord Chalfont set up the Institute for the Study of Terrorism with Jillian Becker in 1985.
Chalfont is on permanent leave of absence from the House of Lords.
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