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Lord Grantchester, Christopher Suenson-Taylor, (born 8/4/1951) is a British peer, Labour politician and multimillionaire dairy farmer in Cheshire.
He is the third Baron of Grantchester and is a member of the Moores family, owners of the Littlewoods catalogues and shopping empire, whose wealth was estimated at £1200 million by the Sunday Times Rich List in 2007. He owns an 11% share of Littlewoods, worth an estimated £176 million. The Littlewoods pools business was sold in June 2000 for £161 million. His mother is Lady Grantchester (née Betty Moores) and his father, the Second Baron Granchester, was Kenneth Suenson-Taylor (died 12 August 1995).[1]
Lord Grantchester gave more than £5,000 to the Labour Party in 1999-2000.
Since 2010 he has been Opposition Whip (Lords).[2]
Affiliations
- Former director of Littlewoods
- Former director of Everton F.C.
- Chairman of the South West Cheshire Dairy Association
- Former chairman of Dairy Farmers of Britain until June 2009
- Vice President, Wingate Special Children’s Trust
- Vice President, Oulton Park Cricket Club
- Foundation for Sports and the Arts
- Everton Collection Charitable Trust
References
- ↑ Barbara clegg Lord Grantchester Obituary, The Independent, 21 September 1995
- ↑ The Lord Grantchester, www.parliament.co.uk, accessed 3 April 2012
