Richard Norton, 8th Baron Grantley
Richard William Brinsley Norton, 8th Baron Grantley (born 30 January 1956), is a retired banker and politician. In early life he worked for the Conservative Party, but joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) when it was founded in 1993. As Richard Grantley, he was a member of the House of Lords from 1995 to 1999.
Early life
The son of John Norton, 7th Baron Grantley, Norton was born in 1956, and was the maternal grandson of William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel.
His ancestral Norton family included Sir Richard Norton, who was attainted for his role as one of the leaders of the ill-fated Rising of the North in 1569, and Sir Fletcher Norton who was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1770 to 1780 and was created Baron Grantley of Markenfield in 1782.
He was educated at Garden House, Eaton House, Ampleforth College, and New College, Oxford, which he entered with an Open Scholarship in Mathematics, but graduated in Law.[1] He was President of the Oxford Union in 1976.[2]
Career
Norton worked in the
A councillor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from 1982 to 1986, he was the Conservative parliamentary candidate for the Wentworth constituency at the 1983 general election.[3]
He joined the
In 1981 Grantley became a banker and international project financier at
Grantley is chairman of Milner Street Area Residents' Association in Chelsea. He lives at 8 Halsey Street, Cheslea SW3 2QH. He was a patron of Save Sloane Square, which campaigned to prevent the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from turning the centre of Sloane Square into a crossroads.[5] He also participated in the successful campaign to prevent the developers of the Chelsea Barracks site from demolishing the Garrison Church.
He is a patron of the Vaughan Parents Action Group which campaigned to prevent the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, one of the outstanding Catholic state schools in London, from being turned into an ordinary local school.
Grantley was a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta for 38 years and served on the council of its British Association, and as a director of The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. For ten years he was a director of The Order of St John Care Homes Trust. He is a regular worshipper at the London Oratory and a long-standing devotee of the traditional Latin Mass.
Grantley is a keen bridge player. In 1972 he reached the final of the Daily Mail National Schools Bridge Competition; he was a regular member of the House of Lords bridge team in its annual matches against the House of Commons; and he was a member of the Polish Club team which won the Devonshire Cup in 2011 and 2015.
Arms
References
- ^ "Garden House old boy shares his memories". Garden House School. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ The Ampleforth Journal, vol. 81 (1976), p. 82.
- ^ The Rt Hon the Lord Grantley, biography at debretts.com.
- ^ GRANTLEY[usurped] at leighrayment.com.
- ^ Our Patrons at savesloanesquare.co.uk.