June 2003. Following three years in office as Delegate of the British and Irish Delegation, Lord Belhaven and Stenton retired in June 2003 and was succeeded by HE Mr Anthony Bailey (below), former Vice-Delegate and Chancellor.
Lord Belhaven and Stenton was born in February 1927 and succeeded his father, the 12th Lord Belhaven and Stenton in 1961. He was educated at Eton College before serving from 1946-1948 as a Lieutenant in The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Lord Belhaven and Stenton married Elizabeth Moseley in 1952 and had one son and daughter. This marriage was dissolved in 1973. In the same year Lord Belhaven and Stenton married Rosemary, Lady McTaggart who subsequently died.
In 1986 Lord Belhaven married Malgorzata Maria Hruzik-Mazurkiewicz, from Krakow, Poland from which they have one daughter. From the moment of his elevation to the House of Lords until the recent abolition of the rights of hereditary peers to sit in the Upper Chamber, Lord Belhaven and Stenton was an active Conservative Peer and served on numerous committees including the British-Polish Group, British-Slovenian Group and the British-Slovakian Group. In 1995 he was decorated with the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in recognition of his active role in British-Polish relations.
Lord Belhaven’s heir is his son, the Hon. Frederick Carmichael Hamilton, Master of Belhaven, who was born in 1953. Lord Belhaven and Stenton converted to become a Roman Catholic in the Jubilee Year 2000 following ten years of attending mass at Westminster Cathedral. His daughter has been brought up as a Roman Catholic. He was appointed the British and Irish Delegate of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order in 2000 by special decree of HRH The Grand Master.