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The Right HonourableThe Lord Taylor of HolbeachCBE PC FRSA
Official portrait, 2024
Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
In office
6 August 2014 – 24 July 2019
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded byThe Baroness Anelay of St John's
Succeeded byThe Lord Ashton of Hyde
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information
In office
4 September 2012 – 6 August 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byLynne Featherstone
Succeeded byThe 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 MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byThe Lord Henley
Succeeded byThe Lord de Mauley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 June 2006
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1943-11-12) 12 November 1943 (age 81)
Political partyConservative

John Derek Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach, CBE PC FRSA (born 12 November 1943) is a British Conservative politician and former 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 from 1966 to 1998, and contested the Parliamentary constituency of Chesterfield in the general elections of February 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. He served as chairman of the National Conservative Convention from 2000 to 2003. He was created a life peer as Baron Taylor of Holbeach, of South Holland in the county of Lincolnshire, on 31 May 2006. He is an honorary member of Conservative Friends of Poland. Taylor was appointed junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in September 2011, and moved in September 2012 to a ministerial post at the Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information.

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, continuing in that office until the end of the Second May ministry.

Coat of arms of John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach
Crest
A badger sejant erect Gules the head Argent the eye strip Gules holding in the dexter forepaw over the shoulder a shovel Or and supporting with the sinister forepaw a book palewise Argent bound Or.
Escutcheon
Argent guttee de sang and fretty Azure on a pale Gules three tulip heads Or.
Supporters
Dexter a hare Azure gorged with a plain collar attached thereto a chain reflexed over the back Or sinister a heron Azure beaked and legged Or.
Motto
So To Grow

References

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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. "Honorary Members". www.cfofp.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  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. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  10. Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 4556.
Political offices
Preceded byThe Baroness Anelay of St John's Chief Whip of the House of Lords
2014–2019 		Succeeded byThe Lord Ashton of Hyde
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
2014–2019
Party political offices
Preceded byRobin Hodgson Chair of the National Conservative Convention
2000–2003 		Succeeded byRaymond Monbiot
Preceded byThe Baroness Anelay of St John's Conservative Chief Whip of the House of Lords
2014–2019 		Succeeded byThe Lord Ashton of Hyde
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded byThe Lord Lee of Trafford Gentlemen
Baron Taylor of Holbeach 		Followed byThe Lord Burnett


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