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Timothy Wentworth Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (born 22 November , 1928 ) is a politician in the United Kingdom . He is the only person to sit in the House Of Lords as a member of the Green Party . Beaumont's father, Michael Beaumont , was a Conservative Member Of Parliament ; his maternal grandfather was Liberal politician Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford . Timothy was educated at Eton College , Gordonstoun School and Christ Church, Oxford . He became an Anglican priest in Kowloon , Hong Kong 1957-59. He was created a Liberal Life Peer in 1967. He was chair of the Liberal Party 1967-8 and President 1969-70. In 1973 he resigned his holy orders, but resumed them in 1984, becoming Vicar of All Souls, Kew in the Diocese Of Southwark , now retired. He joined the Liberal Democrat s but objected to their support for free trade and joined the Green Party in 1999 . Beaumont is a patron of Transgender equality campaign group Press For Change . He is married to Mary Rose Wauchope, with whom he has two sons and two daughters. EXTERNAL LINKS
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