Eric Long, 3rd Viscount Long

He was the younger brother of Brigadier-General Walter Long, and the nephew of Lord Gisborough.

Between the wars he reached the rank of Major in the part-time Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry.

[2] He served again in World War II, becoming Commander of 329 Battery in 32nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (7th City of London) in 1941,[3] based at Carlton Hall near Saxmundham, Suffolk.

[1] Viscount Long died at a Bath hospital on 12 January 1967, aged 74, and is buried in the family vault at West Ashton, Wiltshire.

When women peers were introduced into the House of Lords he said: "I will of course speak to them if they thrust their presence in my face, but otherwise I will do my best to overlook them".