Up for auction a RARE! "3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley" Christopher Monckton Hand Written Letter dated 1974.
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Christopher
Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British public speaker and hereditary
peer. He is known for his work as a journalist, Conservative political advisor, UKIP political candidate, and for his
invention of the mathematical puzzle Eternity.
Early on in his public speaking
career topics centred on his mathematical puzzle and conservative politics. In
recent years his public speaking has garnered attention due to his denial of climate change and his views on
the European Union and social policy. Monckton is the eldest son of
Major-General Gilbert
Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (1915–2006), and
Marianna Letitia (née Bower), former High Sheriff of Kent, Dame of Malta
(born 1929). He has three brothers, Timothy, Jonathan and Anthony, and a
sister, Rosa, wife of the journalist Dominic
Lawson. Monckton was educated at Harrow School
and Churchill College, Cambridge, where he
received a B.A. (Classics, 1974, now M.A.), and at University College, Cardiff, where he obtained
a diploma in journalism studies. In 1990, he married Juliet Mary Anne Malherbe
Jensen. Monckton is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Broderers,
an Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem,
a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and a member of the Roman
Catholic Mass Media Commission. He is also a qualified Day Skipper with the Royal Yachting Association, and has been a
trustee of the Hales Trophy for the Blue Riband
of the Atlantic since 1986. On the death of his father in 2006 Monckton inherited the
title Viscount Monckton of Brenchley,
but as this was after the House of Lords Act 1999 he did not inherit
his father's position in the House of Lords. On 18 October 2008 Monckton posted
online "More in Sorrow than in Anger, Open letter from The Viscount
Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and
Policy" after U.S. presidential candidate John McCain
made a campaign speech at a wind farm in which he stated his belief in anthropogenic climate change. Monckton
stated in interviews and on the web site of the Science and Public Policy
institute that he was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate;
he later stated that this had been a joke.