Michael Jopling

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Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Thomas Michael Jopling

(1930-12-10) 10 December 1930 (age 93)
Ripon, Yorkshire, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Hilary Dickinson
​
(m. 1958)​
Children2, including Jay
Alma materDurham University
Newcastle University

Thomas Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling,

PC, DL (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][2]

Life and career

Jopling is the son of Mark Bellerby Jopling (1886–1958), of

National Farmers Union
. Jopling 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".[5]

After over 32 years as a member of the House Commons, he stood down at the

Prime Minister’s Questions by John Major at his last question session on 20 March.[6]

Jopling was made a

America All Party Parliamentary Group
.

Personal life

Jopling married Hilary Gail Dickinson in 1958; she was appointed an

MBE in 2017. The couple had two sons: the Hon. Nicholas Mark Fletcher Jopling and the Hon. Jeremy Michael Neal Jopling. Nicholas is active in the Conservative Party, having contested the Sedgefield constituency at the 1992 general election, but losing to the future Labour Party leader and Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Nicholas's son, Caspar (Jopling's grandson) was married to singer Ellie Goulding from 2019 to 2024.[8]

His younger son, Jeremy (known as Jay), is a British

Sam Taylor-Wood, one of the Young British Artists
.

Jopling is an Honorary member of the Buck's and Royal Automobile clubs. He lives at Ainderby Hall in Thirsk.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u22516
    . Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  2. ISBN 9781857432176
    . Michael Jopling 1930 Ripon, Yorks.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 1115
  4. ^ "Joplings". The Making of Mashamshire.
  5. ^ Alan Clark Diaries: In Power 1983–1992 (Wednesday 17 June 1987) 1993 Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  6. ^ "Engagements (Hansard, 20 March 1997)". api.parliament.uk.
  7. ^ "No. 54789". The London Gazette. 10 June 1997. p. 6745.
  8. ^ Kaplan, Ilana (23 February 2024). "Ellie Goulding and Caspar Jopling Separate After 4½ Years of Marriage: 'We Remain the Closest of Friends'". People. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  9. ^ Sawyer, Miranda (10 November 2001). "Happy return". The Guardian.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Westmorland
1964–1983 		Constituency abolished
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