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

Early life

He is the son of the 2nd Baron Grantchester and Lady Grantchester (''née'' Betty Moores) and was educated at

Winchester College Winchester College is an English Public school (United Kingdom), public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day school, day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It wa ...

, where he was in the school football team, and at the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

, where he graduated

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

in economics.

Business and charitable interests

Littlewoods

Lord Grantchester is the grandson of John Moores, and his mother was nominal head of the Moores family, founders of the Liverpool-based

Littlewoods Littlewoods was a retail and football betting company founded in Liverpool, England, by John Moores in 1923. By the 1980s, it had grown to become the largest private company in Europe but subsequently declined in the face of increased compe ...

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.

Football

He was a director of his favoured football team, Everton. He has frequently been listed in the ''

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'' rich list as a result of his shareholding. , he owned 8.5% of the club. 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

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Dairy farming

Lord Grantchester runs a dairy farm near

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, 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.

House of Lords

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

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under the

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after defeating Viscount Hanworth by two votes to one in a

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for the Labour seat in October 2003. He is a member of

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. Under the leadership of

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, he was an Opposition Whip from 8 October 2010 to 18 September 2015.

Arms

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grantchester, John Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron 1951 births Living people People educated at Winchester College Alumni of the London School of Economics Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers Labour Friends of Israel British chairpersons of corporations English football chairmen and investors 21st-century British farmers

Grantchester Grantchester () is a village and civil parish on the River Cam or Granta (river), Granta in South Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about south of Cambridge. Name The village of Grantchester is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as ''Granteset ...

Everton F.C. directors and chairmen Moores family