John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach

The Right Honourable
The Lord Taylor of Holbeach
CBE PC FRSA
The Right Honourable The Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE 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 Minister	David Cameron; Theresa May
Preceded by	The Baroness Anelay of St John's
Succeeded by	The Lord Ashton of Hyde
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information
	In office; 4 September 2012 – 6 August 2014
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Lynne Featherstone
Succeeded by	The 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	The Lord Henley
Succeeded by	The Lord de Mauley
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 June 2006; Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	12 November 1943 (age 80)
Political party	Conservative

John Derek Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach, CBE PC FRSA ^[1] (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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[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] 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^[10]

References

^ "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)
^ "No. 52767". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1991. p. 9.
^ "Lord Taylor of Holbeach". Parliament. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
^ "No. 58001". The London Gazette. 5 June 2006. p. 7665.
^ "Honorary Members". www.cfofp.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
^ "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.
^ 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.
^ "Home Office welcomes new Ministers" (Press release). Home Office. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
^ "Ministerial appointments: August 2014 – Press releases". Gov.uk. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 4556.

Political offices
Preceded by The Baroness Anelay of St John's	Chief Whip of the House of Lords 2014–2019	Succeeded by The Lord Ashton of Hyde
Preceded by The Baroness Anelay of St John's	Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 2014–2019	Succeeded by The Lord Ashton of Hyde
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 2014–2019	Succeeded by The Lord Ashton of Hyde
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Lord Lee of Trafford	Gentlemen Baron Taylor of Holbeach	Followed by The Lord Burnett

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[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.

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