He is the son of the 2nd Baron Grantchester and Lady Grantchester (née Betty Moores) and was educated at Winchester College,where he was in the school football team,and at the London School of Economics,where he graduated Bachelor of Science in economics.
Business and charitable interests
Littlewoods
Lord Grantchester is the grandson of John Moores,and his mother was nominal head of the Moores family,founders of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing businesses,until her death in 2019. Lord Grantchester is a former director of Littlewoods. He is ranked 149th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2022 with a net worth of £1.2bn.[2]
Football
He was a director of his favoured football team,Everton. He has frequently been listed in the FourFourTwo rich list as a result of his shareholding. As of December 2015[update],he owned 8.5% of the club.[3] He left the Everton board in December 2000. He is a trustee of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts. He is also a trustee of the Everton Collection,which incorporates the David France Collection,the world's largest open-access club-specific football memorabilia collection,held in the Liverpool Record Office in Liverpool Central Library.[citation needed]
Dairy farming
Lord Grantchester runs a dairy farm near Crewe,Cheshire. He is chairman of the South West Cheshire Dairy Association,and a Council Member of both the Cheshire Agricultural Society and the Royal Agricultural Society.
Lord Grantchester was the chairman of one of the UK's largest milk and cheese businesses,Dairy Farmers of Britain,accounting for 10% of the UK milk market,when it entered receivership in June 2009.[4][5]
Under the leadership of Ed Miliband,he was an Opposition Whip from 8 October 2010 to 18 September 2015.
Arms
Coat of arms of John Suenson-Taylor,3rd Baron Grantchester
Crest
1st Issuant from a crown palisada Or a unicorn's head Sable armed and charged on the neck with an annulet Gold and holding in the mouth an acorn leaved and slipped Proper;2nd issuant from a coronet composed of light roses Gules seeded Argent and set upon a rim Or a swan rousant Proper crowned with an antique crown Gold.
Escutcheon
Quarterly 1st &4th:Sable on a fess engrailed between in chief a fleur-de-lys between two annulets Or and in base as many like annulets a lion passant of the field;2nd &3rd Gules:in chief two swans rousant Proper each crowned with an antique crown Or and in base barry wavy of six Argent and Azure.
Supporters
Dexter,an unicorn sable armed,and crined or,gorged with a collar argent,thereon a fesse wavy azure;Sinister,a lion or,gorged with a collar of four hearts gules.
↑ "Dairy Farmers enters receivership". BBC News Online. 3 June 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2016. "What is most important now is that the supply chain is maintained through to our consumers, that jobs are saved, and that there is a home for our members' milk," said Lord Grantchester, chairman of DFOB.
Italics in entries mean the titleholder also holds a previously listed barony of greater precedence. ^* Also a Lord in the Peerage of Scotland, ^• Also a Baron in the Peerage of Ireland
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