Gerard Collier, 5th Baron Monkswell

He was educated at Portsmouth University (BSc Mechanical Eng, 1971) and Thames Valley University.^[2] He succeeded to the title Baron Monkswell in 1984, and was a Member of the House of Lords from 1985 to 1999. He was a Labour Party Member of Manchester City Council from 1989 to 1994. In 1994, he was convicted of assaulting a psychotherapist who he believed had been brainwashing a woman with whom he had been having an affair, and was sentenced to 14 weeks' imprisonment, which he served in HM Prison Kirkham, an open prison.^[3]

Lord Monkswell was an unsuccessful candidate in by-elections to the House of Lords in 2003, 2005, and 2011.

He died on 12 July 2020 at the age of 73.^[4]