The Right Honourable The Lord Marland | |
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Jonathan Peter Marland, Baron Marland (born 14 August 1956) is a British businessman and former Treasurer of the Conservative Party. He was awarded a life peerage in 2006 as Baron Marland, of Odstock in the County of Wiltshire.
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Marland was educated at Shrewsbury School, an independent school for boys (now co-educational) in the county town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
Marland was one of the founding directors of Jardine Lloyd Thomson plc,[1] a multinational insurance business and also founded AppleClaim, the insurance company, at Lloyd's of London. He led the acquisitions of Hunter Wellington Boots, and Insurance Capital Partners.
In 2007 he led the closure of the British manufacturing operations of Hunter Wellington Boots and remove of the manufacturing of the Hunter product range offshore, largely to Chinese owned and run factories within China.[2]
Away from business, Marland is a Trustee of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum (UK), and a Trustee of The Churchill Centre.[3]
He founded The Sports Nexus, an independent body set up to examine the structures, governance and accountability of an array of sports. He chairs the Sports Nexus Trust.[4] He is the President of Salisbury City F.C. and a member of the MCC. In January 2009 he challenged Giles Clarke for the chairmanship of the ECB. He failed, despite having pledged to raise a £100m capital fund for development across all 18 counties if elected as chairman.[5]
In 2003, Marland was appointed as Treasurer to the Conservative Party, fulfilling the role until 2007, and subsequently became a key part of the team which saw the election of Boris Johnson as Mayor of London. Lord Marland is also the Treasurer and a Trustee of the Atlantic Partnership.[6]
In 2010, Marland was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change,[7] serving on Her Majesty's Government frontbench.
On May 2011 he was appointed as the Chairman of the British Business Ambassadors by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)[8]
There is an extensive list of Marland's political and business interests in the UK Parliament website.[9]