Marcus Kimball, Baron Kimball

Marcus Richard Kimball (born 18 October 1928) is a British Conservative politician.

Born in Marylebone, London, Kimball was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a farmer and a Lloyd's underwriter. He was a councillor on Rutland County Council and commanded a squadron of the Leicestershire Yeomanry.

Kimball contested Derby South in 1955. He was Member of Parliament for Gainsborough from a 1956 by-election until 1983. His successor was Edward Leigh. Kimball was subsequently given a life peerage as Baron Kimball, of Easton in the County of Leicestershire in 1985.

A keen huntsman, Kimball was joint master of the Fitzwilliam Hunt 1952 and 1953, and the Cottesmore Hunt 1953-58. He was chairman of the British Field Sports Society 1966-82, and its President 1996-98. He has been Deputy President since 1998. He has also held senior positions in greyhound racing, show jumping and light horse breeding organisations and in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Lord Kimball, vice-president of the Countryside Alliance, unwittingly gave money to an anti-field sports organisation after an Industrial Tribunal ruled that he sacked his housekeeper unfairly and she donated part of her compensation.^[1]

References

1. ^ Daily Telegraph "Hunt-supporting peer's payout will go to animal rights group" 8 April 2002

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 & 1979
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Marcus Kimball

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Harry Crookshank	Member of Parliament for Gainsborough 1956–1983	Succeeded by Constituency Abolished
Preceded by Peter Michael Kirk	Baby of the House 1956–1957	Succeeded by Robert Cooke

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