John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach
John Derek Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach, 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. He served on the Executive Committee of the East Midlands Conservative Council between 1966 and 1998 and contested the Parliamentary constituency of Chesterfield in the General Elections of February 1974 and 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. He served as Chairman of the National Conservative Convention from 2000 to 2003. On 6 August 2014, in a mini-reshuffle prompted by the resignation of 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, continuing in that office until the end of the Second May ministry.