Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Baron Rathcavan

The Right Honourable
The Lord Rathcavan
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
30 December 1994 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 2nd Baron Rathcavan
Succeeded bySeat abolished [a] 
Personal details
Born
Hugh Detmar Torrens O'Neill

(1939-06-14) 14 June 1939 (age 85)
OccupationBusinessman, peer, politician

Hugh Detmar Torrens O'Neill, 3rd Baron Rathcavan (born 14 June 1939), is a British hereditary peer and businessman who sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords from 1994 until 1999.

He was educated at Eton College.[1]

O'Neill ran Lamont, a textile company in Northern Ireland, in the 1980s and was chairman of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board before taking on the Brasserie St Quentin in Knightsbridge in 2002.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Under the House of Lords Act 1999.

References

  1. ^ ‘RATHCAVAN’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014.
  2. ^ "Knightsbridge revisited". The Caterer. 10 July 2002. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Rathcavan
1994–present
Member of the House of Lords
(1994–1999) 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Francois O'Neill
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