Patrick McLoughlin

**Patrick Allen McLoughlin, Baron McLoughlin**,  (born 30 November 1957) is an English politician and the current Chief Whip, which is the same job he had in opposition. He was first elected in 1986 in a by-election as the Member of Parliament for the West Derbyshire constituency in the United Kingdom, and since 2010 for its successor, the Derbyshire Dales constituency.

He is a member of the Conservative Party. On 14 July 2016, he became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, under the new Prime Minister Theresa May. He resigned as Chairman on 8 January 2018 and was succeeded by Brandon Lewis.

## Early life and career

McLoughlin was born in Stafford on 30 November 1957, the son and grandson of coal miners. He was educated at the Cardinal Griffin Roman Catholic School in Cannock, Staffordshire, and Staffordshire College of Agriculture at Rodbaston College. From 1974, he worked for five years as a farm worker and, after 1979, worked underground at the Littleton Colliery in Cannock. He was a member of the National Union of Mineworkers, and became an industrial representative for the National Coal Board's Western Area Marketing Department.

He was knighted in the Resignation Honours of David Cameron in 2016. In Theresa May's Resignation Honours in September 2019, he was made a Companion of Honour.

## Other websites

- Profile at the Conservative Party

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## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord McLoughlin
- **image**: Official portrait of Sir Patrick McLoughlin crop 2.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2017
- **office**: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- **primeminister**: Theresa May
- **term start**: 14 July 2016
- **term end**: 8 January 2018
- **predecessor**: Oliver Letwin
- **successor**: David Lidington
- **office1**: Chairman of the Conservative Party
- **leader1**: Theresa May
- **term start1**: 14 July 2016
- **term end1**: 8 January 2018
- **predecessor1**: Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree, The Lord Feldman of Elstree
- **successor1**: Brandon Lewis
- **office2**: Secretary of State for Transport
- **primeminister2**: David Cameron
- **term start2**: 4 September 2012
- **term end2**: 14 July 2016
- **predecessor2**: Justine Greening
- **successor2**: Chris Grayling
- **office3**: Chief Whip, Chief Whip of the House of Commons
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
- **primeminister3**: David Cameron
- **term start3**: 12 May 2010
- **term end3**: 4 September 2012
- **predecessor3**: Nick Brown
- **successor3**: Andrew Mitchell
- **office4**: Chief Whip, Opposition Chief Whip of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons
- **leader4**: David Cameron
- **term start4**: 7 December 2005
- **term end4**: 11 May 2010
- **predecessor4**: David Maclean
- **successor4**: Nick Brown
- **office5**: Lords of the Treasury, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
- **primeminister5**: John Major
- **term start5**: 23 July 1996
- **term end5**: 2 May 1997
- **predecessor5**: Liam Fox
- **successor5**: Jon Owen Jones
- **office7**: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom), for Industry
- **primeminister7**: John Major
- **term start7**: 27 May 1993
- **term end7**: 20 July 1994
- **predecessor7**: Edward Leigh
- **successor7**: Charles Wardle
- **office8**: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department of Employment, for Employment
- **primeminister8**: John Major
- **term start8**: 14 April 1992
- **term end8**: 27 May 1993
- **predecessor8**: Eric Forth
- **successor8**: Ann Widdecombe
- **office9**: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department for Transport, for Transport
- **primeminister9**: Margaret Thatcher
John Major
- **term start9**: 25 July 1989
- **term end9**: 14 April 1992
- **predecessor9**: Peter Bottomley
- **successor9**: Kenneth Carlisle
- **office10**: Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
- **term start10**: 29 September 2020
Life Peerage
- **office11**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Derbyshire Dales (UK Parliament constituency), Derbyshire Dales

- **term start11**: 8 May 1986
- **term end11**: 6 November 2019
- **predecessor11**: Matthew Parris
- **successor11**: Sarah Dines
- **birth name**: Patrick Allen McLoughlin
- **birth place**: Stafford, Staffordshire, England
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **children**: 2
- **signature**: Patrick McLoughlin Signature.png
- **alma mater**: South Staffordshire College