Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen

Francis Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, QC (born 8 August 1926) is a cross bench member of the House of Lords.

Educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1977 until 1995, where he has been an Honorary Fellow since 1995. He was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1985 till 1989. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003.

Having been knighted in 1983, Neill was made a Life Peer as Baron Neill of Bladen, of Briantspuddle in the County of Dorset, on 28 November 1997. He became a barrister in 1951 and a QC in 1966. After heading One Hare Court, he became head of chambers of Serle Court, in Lincoln's Inn when the two merged in 1999. Lord Neill left Serle Court in 2008 to join his elder brother Sir Brian Neill, a former Court of Appeal judge, at 20 Essex Street.

Family Life

In 1954 he married Caroline Susan Debenham, daughter of Sir Piers Kenrick Debenham. They have six children:

• Timothy Piers Patrick Neill
• Robin Charles Richard Neill
• Jonathan Francis Kenrick Neill
• Harriet Susan Anne Neill
• Matthew Piers Thomas Neill
• Emma Charlotte Angela Neill, married to Rt Hon. Sir Christopher Geidt, the Private Secretary to the HM The Queen.

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• Personal Biography

Media offices
Preceded by Hartley Shawcross	Chairman of the Press Council 1978–1983	Succeeded by Zelman Cowen
Academic offices
Preceded by John Hanbury Angus Sparrow	Warden of All Souls College, Oxford 1977–1995	Succeeded by John Davis
Preceded by Geoffrey Warnock	Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1985–1989	Succeeded by Richard Southwood
Government offices
Preceded by The Lord Nolan	Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life 1997–2001	Succeeded by Sir Nigel Wicks