Michael Lord

Michael Nicholson Lord, Baron Framlingham (born 17 October 1938) is a British politician, and was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich between 1997 and 2010.

He attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he gained an MA in agriculture in 1962 and a blue for rugby union as a centre.

He was a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1997, and therefore did not take political stances or vote in the Chamber.

On 19 November 2010, it was announced that he would be created a life peer and sit as a Conservative in the House of Lords.

He married Jennifer Margaret Childs in 1965 and they have a son, Tim Lord, and a daughter.