Simon Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton

Simon Frederick Marquis, 3rd Earl of Woolton (born 24 May 1958), styled Viscount Walberton between 1964 and 1969, is a British hereditary peer and businessman.

Early life and education The only son of Roger Marquis, 2nd Earl of Woolton, and his second wife (Cecily) Josephine Gordon-Cumming (1925–2012), later Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, elder daughter of Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming, 5th Baronet. He succeeded to the earldom and subsidiary titles at the age of 10 upon the death of his father in 1969.

After attending Eton, he went up to read Economics and Modern History at the University of St Andrews, graduating MA in 1981.

Career Lord Woolton began his career at S.G. Warburg & Co. Ltd. in 1982. He was a director of New Boathouse Capital and Chief Financial Officer of Quayle Munro. Since 2018, he works for Houlihan Lokey UK as Corporate Chief Operating Officer.

Woolton was introduced to the House of Lords in 1979 (21 being the minimum age at which a peer can take their seat) where he sat until the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed hereditary peers' automatic right to a seat in Parliament.

A Freeman of the City of London, Lord Woolton served as Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners for 2024/25.

Marriages and children Woolton married the Hon. Sophie Birdwood, only child of Mark Birdwood, 3rd Baron Birdwood, in 1987. The Earl and Countess of Woolton had three daughters. Woolton and his first wife were divorced on 13 May 1997. He married secondly, on 28 October 1999, Mrs (Mary) Carol Chapman (née Davidson), who has two daughters from a previous marriage.

As Woolton has no sons and as there are no other surviving male-line descendants of the first earl, the earldom and its subsidiary titles will become extinct upon the present earl's death.