John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach

The Right Honourable
The Lord Taylor of Holbeach
CBE PC FRSA
Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
Assumed office
6 August 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded by The Baroness Anelay of St John's
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Criminal Information
In office
4 September 2012 – 6 August 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Lord Henley
Succeeded by Lord Bates
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Resource Management, the Local Environment and Environmental Science
In office
16 September 2011 – 4 September 2012
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Lord Henley
Succeeded by Lord de Mauley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
31 May 2006
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1943-11-12) 12 November 1943
Political party Conservative

John Derek Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach, CBE PC FRSA [1] (born 12 November 1943) is a British Conservative politician and current Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords.

Biography

Taylor is the son of Percy Otto Taylor and Ethel Brocklehurst. He was educated at Holbeach Primary School in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, St. Felix School in Felixstowe, and at Bedford School in the county town of Bedfordshire.

He served on the Executive Committee of the East Midlands Conservative Council between 1966 and 1998 and contested the Parliamentary constituency of Chesterfield in the General Elections of February 1974 and October 1974. He later held many roles within the voluntary wing of the Conservative Party and was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992 for political service.[2] He served as Chairman of the National Conservative Convention from 2000 to 2003. [3] He was created a life peer as Baron Taylor of Holbeach, of South Holland in the County of Lincolnshire, on 31 May 2006.[4] He is an honorary member of Conservative Friends of Poland.[5] Taylor was appointed junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in September 2011,[6] and moved in September 2012 to a ministerial post at the Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information.[7][8]

On 6 August 2014, in a mini-reshuffle prompted by the resignation of Baroness Warsi, Lord Taylor was appointed to the post of Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Chief Whip in the House of Lords.[9]

References

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  2. ↑ "No. 52767". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1991. p. 9.
  3. ↑ "Lord Taylor of Holbeach". Parliament. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "No. 58001". The London Gazette. 5 June 2006. p. 7665.
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ "Crime minister Lady Browning resigns on health grounds". BBC News. 16 September 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2012. Lord Taylor of Holbeach [...] will replace Conservative peer Lord Henley as a junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
  7. ↑ Quinault, Caelia (7 September 2012). "Recycling minister Lord Taylor leaves Defra". letsrecycle.com. Retrieved 7 September 2012. Lord Taylor of Holbeach has praised the waste industry after leaving his post as recycling minister at Defra as part of the cabinet reshufle. The minister, who has been parliamentary under secretary of state at Defra since September 2011 and is well regarded by the waste sector, has been promoted to a new ministerial role within the Home Office.
  8. ↑ "Home Office welcomes new Ministers" (Press release). Home Office. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  9. ↑ "Ministerial appointments: August 2014 - Press releases". Gov.uk. 2014-08-06. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
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Political offices
Preceded by
The Baroness Anelay of St John's		 Chief Whip of the House of Lords
2014–present		 Incumbent
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
2014–present
Party political offices
Preceded by
Robin Hodgson		 Chair of the National Conservative Convention
2000–2003		 Succeeded by
Raymond Monbiot
Preceded by
The Baroness Anelay of St John's		 Conservative Chief Whip of the House of Lords
2014–present		 Incumbent


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