Marcus Kimball, Baron Kimball

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Marcus Richard Kimball, Baron Kimball (born 18 October 1928) was a British Conservative politician.

Kimball was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He became a farmer and a Lloyd's underwriter. He was a councillor on Rutland County Council and commanded a squadron of the Leicestershire Yeomanry.

Kimball contested Derby South in 1955. He was Member of Parliament for Gainsborough from a 1956 by-election until 1983. His successor was Edward Leigh. Kimball was subsequently given a life peerage as Baron Kimball, of Easton in the County of Leicestershire in 1985.

A keen huntsman, Kimball was joint master of the Fitzwilliams Hounds 1952 and 1953, and the Cottesmore Hounds 1953-58. He was chairman of the British Field Sports Society 1966-82, and its President 1996-98. He has been Deputy President since 1998. He has also held senior positions in greyhound racing, show jumping and light horse breeding organisations and in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

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• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 & 1979
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.