Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353
Biography
Lords career
Government Whip 1990-92
Party groups
Chair, Morecambe and Lonsdale Conservative Association 1975-78;
Member, Association of Conservative Peers
Councils, public bodies
Councillor, Cumbria County Council 1985-90;
High Sheriff of Cumbria 1978;
DL, Cumbria 1988
Political interests
Environment, local issues, industry, foreign affairs, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, agriculture, forestry, palliative care, national hunt racing
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Cavendish of Furness, of Cartmel in the County of Cumbria 1990
Register of Interests
1: Directorships
Holker Holdings Limited
Holker Estates Company Limited
Remuneration is received indirectly through Holker Estates Company Limited from the following: Vitagrass Farms (Holker) Limited; Holbeck Homes Limited; Roose & Walney Sand & Gravel Company Limited; Cartmel Steeplechases (Holker) Limited; Burlington Slate Limited
5: Land and property
Beneficiary of a Family Trust which owns land in South Cumbria and South-West Scotland, including residential and business property
10: Non-financial interests (a)
Broughton Moor Green Slate Quarries Limited
Burlington Slate Production Limited
Lakeland Green Slate & Stone Company Limited
Mandalls Slate Company Limited
Corrie & Company
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Perennial: Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society
Almshouse Association
Cark & District Anglers Association
Cartmel Agricultural Society
Cartmel Cricket Club
Cumbria Gardens Trust
Cumbria Playing Fields Association
Dry Stone Walling Association
European Boxwood Society
Flookburgh Church Building Trust
Friends of Furness Abbey
Guide over the Sands Trust
Lakeland Housing Trust
Leven Angling Association
Lower Holker Village Hall Association
North Lonsdale Agricultural Society
Royal Fund for Gardeners' Children
South Cumbria Rivers Trust
St Mary’s Hospice