Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott

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honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

name = The Lord Grocott

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office = Lords Chief Whip
term_start = May 2002
term_end = 24 January 2008
primeminister = Gordon Brown, Tony Blair
predecessor = The Lord Carter
successor = The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
constituency_MP2 = Telford
The Wrekin (1987 - 1997)
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term_start2 = 11 June 1987
term_end2 = 7 June 2001
predecessor2 = Warren Hawksley
successor2 = David Wright
constituency_MP3 = Lichfield and Tamworth
majority3 =
term_start3 = 10 October 1974
term_end3 = 3 May 1979
predecessor3 = James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
successor3 = John Heddle
birth_date = Birth date and age|1940|11|1|df=yes
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nationality = British
party = Labour Party
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alma_mater = University of Leicester
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Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott, PC (born 1 November 1940) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

He was first elected as Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Tamworth in October 1974, but lost his seat at the 1979 general election. He was re-elected for The Wrekin in 1987 and transferred to Telford in 1997 when The Wrekin was divided. He served this seat until the 2001 general election, when he stepped down from the Commons and was made a life peer.

He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tony Blair from 1994 until 2001, when he stood down as an MP. He was created a life peer as Baron Grocott, of Telford in the County of Shropshire, on 2 July 2001, quickly bing promoted to a government whip in the House of Lords. From 2002 to 2008 he was the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords as well as Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, the honorary post usually held by the Chief Whip.

External links

* [http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1401.asp Official biography from Number 10]