Tony Greaves, Baron Greaves

Anthony Robert Greaves, Baron Greaves (born 27 July 1942) is a UK politician. He is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.

Together with Gordon Lishman, Greaves moved the party's famous Community Politics motion. This approach to putting power in the hands of ordinary people.

Greaves born in Bradford, and went to Hertford College, Oxford after schooling at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, before moving to the North West. He was a member of the Lancashire County Council for 25 years and a local councillor on Colne and Pendle Borough Councils.

He is an advocate of social liberalism, and he is on record opposing some of the reforms to his party brought about by Sir Menzies Campbell and Nick Clegg.

Greaves was made a life peer as Baron Greaves of Pendle in the County of Lancashire in 2000. In 2010, he went on the record to express his personal frustration at the auction of a manorial title, the Lordship of Pendle, suspiciously close to his own.

Greaves' concerns were later shown to be legitimate when it transpired that the Lordship of the Forest of Pendle belongs to the Barons Clitheroe and forms part of the Honor of Clitheroe holdings they have held since World War II. Its sale was invalid and had not been authorised by its owners.

Tony Greaves is married with two daughters, one of whom was a candidate in the Preston City Council elections in 2006.

External links

• Lord Greaves profile at the site of the Liberal Democrats