Robert Belhaven and Stenton was appointed a Knight of Justice of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George by decree of HRH Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro and Grand Master on 5 June 2000. He succeeded Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton as British and Irish Delegate of the Constantinian Order in 2000 by special decree of the Grand Master and served a full term in office until June 2003.
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 1999 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 longstanding championing of British-Polish relations.
Lord Belhaven and Stenton died on December 2, 2020 at the age of 93.
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