Peter Gilbert Greenall, 4th Baron Daresbury (born 8 July 1953) is a British aristocrat and businessman associated primarily with

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, notably as the chairman of Aintree Racecourse from 1989-2014.

Life and career

Greenall was born on 8 July 1953 in

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, the eldest son of Edward Gilbert Greenall, 3rd Baron Daresbury. He was schooled at

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before attending Magdalene College, Cambridge and later the

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. From 1982 he was a director, and from 1992-1997 managing director, of the family business, Greenall's, as it evolved from a diversified brewery into De Vere; after serving as chief executive from 1997 and chairman from 2000, he left DeVere in 2006 when the company was sold. Upon the death of his father on 9 September 1996 Greenall succeeded to the peerage as the 4th Baron Daresbury, also inheriting as 5th Baronet Greenall, of Walton, Chester. He therefore became a member of the

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, the upper chamber of the

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, sitting as a hereditary peer. Lord Daresbury was removed from the House with the passage and commencement of the

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, which removed the right of all but ninety-two hereditary peers to sit; Daresbury was not one of the remaining minority. A keen horseracing enthusiast, and himself a rider, Daresbury was appointed to the chairmanship of Aintree, home of the

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, Britain's richest horserace, in 1989 at the age of 35. Under his stewardship prize money for the race rose from £118,000 to £1,000,000. All four of his sons have also been jockeys. He retired in 2014. The Lord Daresbury Stand at Aintree is named in his honour. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of

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of Cheshire.Deputy Lieutenants
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Arms

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