He also opposed the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus, and was president of the Friends of Cyprus Association from 2001. Private life Bethell married twice. He married, firstly, Cecilia Mary Lothian Honeyman on 7 April 1964. She was the daughter of Alexander Honeyman, professor of Oriental Languages at St Andrews University. They had two sons, James and William, but divorced in 1971; she died in 1977. He remarried in 1992, to Bryony Lea Morgan Griffiths. They had one son, John. They resided in London. He enjoyed playing tennis and poker, and was a member of the Garrick Club and Pratt's. He suffered from Parkinson's disease in later life, dying at age 69. He was survived by his second wife, and his three sons. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, James Bethell, 5th Baron Bethell. Works Wladyslaw Gomulka: his Poland and his communism, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. The War Hitler Won, September 1939, London: A. Lane 1972. The Last Secret: Forcible repatriation to Russia, 1944–7, with introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper, London : Deutsch, 1974. Russia Besieged, Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1977. The Palestine Triangle: the struggle between the British, the Jews and the Arabs, 1935–48, London : Deutsch, 1979. Betrayed, London: Times Books, 1984; published in North America as The great betrayal: the untold story of Kim Philby's biggest coup, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984. Spies and Other Secrets, 1994. Translations Six Plays by Slawomir Mrozek. Elegy to John Donne, And Other Poems, London: Longmans 1967 by Joseph Brodsky. Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968. The Love Girl and the Innocent by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1969. The Ascent of Mount Fuji by Chingiz Aitmatov, 1975. References Daily Telegraph obituary, 11 September 2007 Obituary, The Guardian, 11 September 2007 Obituary, The Independent, 13 September 2007 The Peerage Notes External links Presentation of the Schuman Medal to Lord Bethell MEP (archived copy) 1938 births 2007 deaths Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge British activists British anti-communists Conservative Party (UK) MEPs Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting Deaths from Parkinson's disease Neurological disease deaths in England 4 People educated at Harrow School Writers from London MEPs for the United Kingdom 1973–1979 MEPs for England 1979–1984 MEPs for England 1984–1989 MEPs for England 1989–1994 MEPs for England 1999–2004 Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland 20th-century British historians Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Bethell