Prime Minister David Cameron Party Conservative Party Role British Politician | Name John Baron Political party Conservative | |
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Preceded by The Baroness Anelay of St Johns Born 12 November 1943 (age 80) ( 1943-11-12 ) | ||
John Derek Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach, CBE, PC, FRSA (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 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.