Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Shuttleworth | |
Birth Name: | The Hon. Charles Geoffrey Nicholas Kay-Shuttleworth |
Birth Date: | 2 August 1948 |
Nationality: | British |
Education: | Eton College |
Known For: | British peer and politician |
Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire | |
Term Start: | 1997 |
Predecessor: | Sir Simon Towneley |
Term End: | 2023 |
Successor: | Amanda Parker |
Spouse: | Anne Mary Whatman |
Children: | The Hon. Thomas Kay-Shuttleworth |
Father: | Charles Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 4th Baron Shuttleworth |
Relatives: | Shuttleworth family |
Office2: | Member of the House of Lords |
Term Start2: | 5 October 1975 |
Term End2: | 11 November 1999 |
Predecessor2: | The 4th Baron Shuttleworth |
Successor2: | House of Lords Act 1999 |
Charles Geoffrey Nicholas Kay-Shuttleworth, 5th Baron Shuttleworth, (born 2 August 1948) is a British hereditary peer. He is the son of Charles Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 4th Baron Shuttleworth, and his wife, Anne Elizabeth Phillips.
Lord Shuttleworth was educated at Eton before he was elected FRICS and was a Director of Burnley Building Society from 1979, Chairman of National & Provincial Building Society and Deputy Chairman of Abbey National plc 1996–2004. Following the acquisition of Abbey National plc by Santander he was appointed Chairman of the Santander UK Group Pension Fund from 2005 to 2018. He served as Chairman of the Rural Development Commission, the government agency responsible for the economic and social well-being of the rural areas of England, from 1990 to 1997. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire on 13 January 1997, and he was Chairman of the Association of Lord Lieutenants 2008–2018. He has served as a Member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster since 1998 and was appointed Chairman of the Council from 2006 to 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20080426101043/http://www.duchyoflancaster.co.uk/output/page41.asp
Lord Shuttleworth was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2011 New Year Honours, in addition to being a Knight of the Order of St John (KStJ). He was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG) on 23 April 2016.[1]
The heir apparent to the barony is his son, the Hon. Thomas Kay-Shuttleworth (born 1976).Lord Shuttleworth is Patron of a number of charitable organisations across Lancashire.
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Order of the Garter (KG) |
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King Charles III Coronation Medal |
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