John Jacques, Baron Jacques
- John Jacques, Baron Jacques
John Henry Jacques, Baron Jacques (11 January 1905 – 20 December 1995) was a British businessman and politician for the Co-operative Party.
Jacques was a tutor at the Co-operative College 1929-42 then worked as an accountant for the Plymouth Co-operative Society until 1945. Jacques was chief executive of the Portsea Island Co-operative Society from 1945 until 1965 and served as President of the 1961 Co-operative Congress.[Citation | title = Congress Presidents 1869-2002| url =http://archive.co-op.ac.uk/downloadFiles/congressPresidentstable.pdf|date=February 2002| accessdate =2008-05-10] He was chair of the Co-operative Union 1964-70. The Portsea Island Society's store in Fratton Street, Portsmouth is now a Wetherspoons pub and was named the "Lord Jacques" in his honour. [ [http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/pubs/pub-details.php?PubNumber=1526 Pub Profile] , J D Wetherspoon plc. Accessed 29 May 2008.] ]In recognition of his services to the Co-operative movement, on 11 July 1968, he was made a life peer as Baron Jacques, of Portsea Island in the County of Southampton, sitting as a Labour Co-operative peer. He was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting in the House of Lords in 1974 to 1977 and again in 1979 and served as Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords 1977-85.
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