Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling

The Right Honourable
The Lord Jopling
PC
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office
11 June 1983  13 June 1987
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Peter Walker
Succeeded by John MacGregor
Chief Whip of the Conservative Party
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
In office
4 May 1979  11 June 1983
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Michael Cocks
Succeeded by John Wakeham
Member of Parliament
for Westmorland and Lonsdale
In office
9 June 1983  1 May 1997
Preceded by Constituency Created
Succeeded by Tim Collins
Member of Parliament
for Westmorland
In office
15 October 1964  9 June 1983
Preceded by William Fletcher-Vane
Succeeded by Constituency Abolished
Personal details
Born Thomas Michael Jopling
(1930-12-10) 10 December 1930
Ripon, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Political party Conservative
Alma mater Durham University
Newcastle University

Thomas Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, PC (born 10 December 1930) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party.[1]

Life and career

Jopling was educated at Cheltenham College and Durham University. He was a farmer and company director, and served on the national council of the National Farmers Union. He was a councillor on Thirsk Rural District Council.

Having previously stood unsuccessfully in Wakefield in 1959, Jopling was elected Conservative MP for Westmorland, now in Cumbria, in 1964 and became Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1979 to 1983. In 1983, he was elected for Westmorland and Lonsdale after boundary changes, and was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1983 to 1987.

In his Diaries, the military historian and Tory member of Parliament Alan Clark famously quoted what he claimed was Jopling's "snobby but cutting" dismissal of the ambitious Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine: "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture".[2]

Jopling was made a life peer as Baron Jopling, of Ainderby Quernhow in the County of North Yorkshire on 5 June 1997.[3] He is a member of the Privy Council and the America All Party Parliamentary Group.

His younger son, Jay Jopling, is a British contemporary art dealer and gallerist.[4]

See also

References

  1. The International Who's Who 2004. Google Books (Europa Publications). 2004.
  2. Alan Clark Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 (Wednesday 17 June 1987) 1993 Weidenfield & Nicholson
  3. The London Gazette: no. 54789. p. 6745. 10 June 1997.
  4. Sawyer, Miranda (10 November 2001). "Happy return". The Guardian.

External links

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Fletcher-Vane
Member of Parliament for Westmorland
19641983
Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Westmorland and Lonsdale
19831997
Succeeded by
Tim Collins
Political offices
Preceded by
Humphrey Atkins
Chief Whip of the Conservative Party
1979–1983
Succeeded by
John Wakeham
Preceded by
Michael Cocks
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
1979–1983
Preceded by
Peter Walker
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1983–1987
Succeeded by
John MacGregor
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