Royal United Services Institute, the Institute for Strategic Studies and the British Atlantic Committee. For some years he was an active member of the Conservative Monday Club, joining in 1982 and was the next year appointed chairman of the Club's Foreign Affairs Committee as well as joining their Executive Council. Under his committee chairmanship a Club Policy Paper was published in August that year on The Future of Hong Kong by barrister David Sparrow. In his capacity as Chairman of the Club's Foreign Affairs Committee he also addressed the NATO Plenary Session in June that year supporting the deployment of Cruise missiles, and on 8 October 1983 addressed the Club's South-western Region day-conference at Taunton on the subject of "Defence and C.N.D." He wrote a memoir entitled The Whim of the Wheel, after he suffered a stroke in 1998. He also contributed to the debate in the House of Lords on Unidentified Flying Objects: "UFOs defy worldly logic... The human mind cannot begin to comprehend UFO characteristics: their propulsion, their sudden appearance, their disappearance, their great speeds, their silence, their manoeuvre, their apparent anti-gravity, their changing shapes." EARL OF KIMBERLEY House of Lords. References The Times (obituary). External links 1924 births 2002 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge 14 Grenadier Guards officers John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Kimberley