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John Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Grantchester
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
27 November 1995 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 2nd Baron Grantchester
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
31 October 2003 – present
Preceded byThe 2nd Baron Milner of Leeds
Personal details
Born (1951-04-08) 8 April 1951 (age 73)
Political partyLabour
OccupationDairy farmer, politician
Known forFormer Everton F.C. director

Christopher John Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester (known as John Grantchester;[1] born 8 April 1951), is a British peer and Labour politician.

Early life

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He is the son of the 2nd Baron Grantchester and Lady Grantchester (née Betty Moores) and was educated at Winchester College, where he was in the school football team, and at the London School of Economics, where he graduated Bachelor of Science in economics.

Business and charitable interests

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Littlewoods

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Lord Grantchester is the grandson of John Moores, and his mother was nominal head of the Moores family, founders of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing businesses, until her death in 2019. Lord Grantchester is a former director of Littlewoods. He is ranked 149th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2022 with a net worth of £1.2bn.[2]

Football

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He was a director of his favoured football team, Everton. He has frequently been listed in the FourFourTwo rich list as a result of his shareholding. As of December 2015, he owned 8.5% of the club.[3] He left the Everton board in December 2000. He is a trustee of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts. He is also a trustee of the Everton Collection, which incorporates the David France Collection, the world's largest open-access club-specific football memorabilia collection, held in the Liverpool Record Office in Liverpool Central Library.[citation needed]

Dairy farming

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Lord Grantchester runs a dairy farm near Crewe, Cheshire. He is chairman of the South West Cheshire Dairy Association, and a Council Member of both the Cheshire Agricultural Society and the Royal Agricultural Society.

Lord Grantchester was the chairman of one of the UK's largest milk and cheese businesses, Dairy Farmers of Britain, accounting for 10% of the UK milk market, when it entered receivership in June 2009.[4][5]

House of Lords

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In 1995, he succeeded to his father's title. He replaced the deceased Lord Milner of Leeds as one of the 92 hereditary peers remaining in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999 after defeating Viscount Hanworth by two votes to one in a by-election for the Labour seat in October 2003.[6] He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.[7]

Under the leadership of Ed Miliband, he was an Opposition Whip from 8 October 2010 to 18 September 2015. He is currently a Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a position he has held since 1 July 2014.

Arms

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Coat of arms of John Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester
Crest
1st Issuant from a crown palisada Or a unicorn's head Sable armed and charged on the neck with an annulet Gold and holding in the mouth an acorn leaved and slipped Proper; 2nd issuant from a coronet composed of light roses Gules seeded Argent and set upon a rim Or a swan rousant Proper crowned with an antique crown Gold.
Escutcheon
Quarterly 1st & 4th: Sable on a fess engrailed between in chief a fleur-de-lys between two annulets Or and in base as many like annulets a lion passant of the field; 2nd & 3rd Gules: in chief two swans rousant Proper each crowned with an antique crown Or and in base barry wavy of six Argent and Azure.
Supporters
Dexter, an unicorn sable armed, and crined or, gorged with a collar argent, thereon a fesse wavy azure; Sinister, a lion or, gorged with a collar of four hearts gules.
Motto
Peace And Holy Quiet[8]
Badge
A pellet edged Or charged with an owl standing towards the sinister Gold.

See also

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References

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  • "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 11 December 2006. Retrieved 13 December 2006.
  1. ^ Labour Lords — John Grantchester (Retrieved 18 September 2015)
  2. ^ Watts, Robert (22 May 2022). "Sunday Times Rich List 2022". The Sunday Times.
  3. ^ Traynor, Luke (23 December 2015). "Everton takeover: Who currently owns the shares at Everton?". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 27 March 2016. Lord Grantchester, the grandson of Sir John Moores, has 2,773 shares (8.5%)
  4. ^ Boyle, Catherine (4 June 2009). "Dairy Farmer of Britain calls in receivers". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  5. ^ "Dairy Farmers enters receivership". BBC News Online. 3 June 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2016. "What is most important now is that the supply chain is maintained through to our consumers, that jobs are saved, and that there is a home for our members' milk," said Lord Grantchester, chairman of DFOB.
  6. ^ "Three elect peer in Lords byelection". The Guardian. London. Press Association. 30 October 2003. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  7. ^ "LFI Supporters in Parliament". Labour Friends of Israel. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  8. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1956.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Grantchester
1995–present
Member of the House of Lords
(1995–1999) 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Jesse Suenson-Taylor
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
2003–present 		Incumbent
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