He was a civil liberties campaigner and president of the Society for Individual Freedom.
The son of John Monson, 10th Baron Monson, and Bettie Northrup Powell, he was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a B.A.
[1] The couple had three sons, including Nicholas who succeeded him.
Nicholas's son, Alexander, died while in police custody in Kenya in May 2012;[2] according to a 2018 Kenyan court ruling, he was murdered by police.
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