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{{Short description|British politician (born 1943)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Lord Taylor of Holbeach
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] [[Royal Society of Arts|FRSA]]
| image = Official portrait of Lord Taylor of Holbeach crop 2, 2024.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2024
| office = [[Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms|Chief Whip of the House of Lords<br />Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms]]
| primeminister = [[David Cameron]]<br />[[Theresa May]]
| term_start = 6 August 2014
| term_end = 24 July 2019
| predecessor = [[Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St John's|The Baroness Anelay of St John's]]
| successor = [[Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde|The Lord Ashton of Hyde]]
| office2 = [[Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information]]
| primeminister2 = [[David Cameron]]
| term_start2 = 4 September 2012
| term_end2 = 6 August 2014
| predecessor2 = [[Lynne Featherstone]]
| successor2 = [[Michael Bates, Baron Bates|The Lord Bates]]
| office3 = [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Resource Management, the Local Environment and Environmental Science]]
| primeminister3 = [[David Cameron]]
| term_start3 = 16 September 2011
| term_end3 = 4 September 2012
| predecessor3 = [[Oliver Eden, 8th Baron Henley|The Lord Henley]]
| successor3 = [[Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley|The Lord de Mauley]]
| office4 = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br />[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| term_start4 = 5 June 2006<br />[[Life peer|Life Peerage]]
| term_end4 =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|11|12|df=y}}
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| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
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'''John Derek Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|PC|FRSA}}
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/MinsIns_pdf.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527181340/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/MinsIns_pdf.pdf |archive-date=27 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> (born 12 November 1943) is a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and former Government [[Chief Whip]] in the [[House of Lords]].
==Biography==
Taylor is the son of Percy Otto Taylor and Ethel Brocklehurst. He was educated at Holbeach Primary School in [[Holbeach]], Lincolnshire, St. Felix School in [[Felixstowe]], and at [[Bedford School]] in the county town of [[Bedfordshire]].{{cn|date=August 2023}}
He served on the executive committee of the East Midlands Conservative Council from 1966 to 1998, and contested the Parliamentary constituency of Chesterfield in the general elections of [[February 1974 United Kingdom general election|February]] and [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|October 1974]]. He later held many roles within the voluntary wing of the Conservative Party and was created a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] in 1992 for political service.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=52767 |page=9 | supp=y | date=30 December 1991 }}</ref> He served as chairman of the [[National Conservative Convention]] from 2000 to 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lord Taylor of Holbeach|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/john-taylor/54154|publisher=Parliament|accessdate=7 September 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017005144/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/john-taylor/54154|archivedate=17 October 2012}}</ref> He was created a [[life peer]] as Baron Taylor of Holbeach, of South Holland in the county of [[Lincolnshire]], on 31 May 2006.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=58001 |page=7665 | date=5 June 2006 }}</ref> He is an honorary member of Conservative Friends of Poland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cfofp.co.uk/honorary-members.php |title=Honorary Members |website=www.cfofp.co.uk |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331005056/http://www.cfofp.co.uk/honorary-members.php |archive-date=31 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Taylor was appointed junior minister at the [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]] in September 2011,<ref>{{cite web|title=Crime minister Lady Browning resigns on health grounds|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14947129|work=BBC News|accessdate=6 September 2012|date=16 September 2011|quote=Lord Taylor of Holbeach [...] will replace Conservative peer Lord Henley as a junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.}}</ref> and moved in September 2012 to a ministerial post at the [[Home Office]] as [[Home Office|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Quinault|first=Caelia|title=Recycling minister Lord Taylor leaves Defra|url=http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/waste-management/lord-taylor-leaves-role-as-recycling-minister|publisher=letsrecycle.com|accessdate=7 September 2012|date=7 September 2012|quote=Lord Taylor of Holbeach has praised the waste industry after leaving his post as recycling minister at Defra as part of the cabinet reshufle.  The minister, who has been parliamentary under secretary of state at Defra since September 2011 and is well regarded by the waste sector, has been promoted to a new ministerial role within the Home Office.}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=Home Office welcomes new Ministers|url=http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/new-ministers|publisher=Home Office|accessdate=7 September 2012|date=7 September 2012}}</ref>
On 6 August 2014, in a mini-reshuffle prompted by the resignation of [[Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi|Baroness Warsi]], Lord Taylor was appointed to the post of [[Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms]] and chief whip in the House of Lords,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-august-2014 |title=Ministerial appointments: August 2014 – Press releases |website=Gov.uk |date=6 August 2014 |accessdate=23 January 2017}}</ref> continuing in that office until the end of the [[Second May ministry]].
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|escutcheon = Argent guttee de sang and fretty Azure on a pale Gules three tulip heads Or.
|crest = A badger sejant erect Gules the head Argent the eye strip Gules holding in the dexter forepaw over the shoulder a shovel Or and supporting with the sinister forepaw a book palewise Argent bound Or.
|supporters = Dexter a hare Azure gorged with a plain collar attached thereto a chain reflexed over the back Or sinister a heron Azure beaked and legged Or.
|motto = So To Grow<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=4556}}</ref>}}
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