Jonathan Marland, Baron Marland

Jonathan Peter Marland, Baron Marland (born 14 August 1956) is a British businessman and politician, having served as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy, Minister for Energy and Climate Change and Business, Innovation and Skills, and Treasurer of the Conservative Party. Marland is currently the Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.

The Right Honourable
The Lord Marland
Chairman of Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
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Personal details
Born
Jonathan Peter Marland

Education

Marland was educated at Shrewsbury School.[1]

Business career

Marland was one of the founding directors of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, a multinational insurance business. He led the acquisitions or investment of Janspeed Ltd, Hunter Wellington Boots, Insurance Capital Partners, Jubilee Holdings Ltd, The Cricketer magazine, and Eco World Management and Advisory Services (UK) Ltd.

He is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Kuwait Investment Authority.

He was one of the owners of SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, having been convinced by Nigel Oakes to invest in a company that should focus on "security and military advice".[2][3][4]

Political career

Government posts

In 2010, Marland was made a Minister at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.[5]

In May 2011 he was appointed as the Chairman of the British Business Ambassadors by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI).[6]

In 2012, Marland was made a Minister for Intellectual property in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

He was the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy between 2011 and 2014.

In 2014 he became Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.[7]

Party and parliamentary roles

Marland was the Conservative candidate for the target seat of Somerton and Frome at the 2001 general election, coming second to the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP, David Heath.

He was Treasurer to the Conservative Party from 2003 to 2007, and subsequently became a key part of the team which saw the election of Boris Johnson as Mayor of London.

Opposition posts

In 2009, Marland was made an opposition Whip in the House of Lords, as well as an opposition spokesman for the Cabinet Office, and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Other interests

Away from business and politics, Marland has interests in the arts and sport.

In December 2021 Lord Marland became a Trustee of the British Museum.

He is the Chairman of Tickets for Troops, Chairman of The Guggenheim UK Charitable Trust and Atlantic Partnership, the Patron of Salisbury and South Wiltshire Cricket and Hockey Club and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a member of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum Executive Board and Trustee of Commonwealth Walkway Trust.

He was formerly Chairman of The Churchill Centre UK (until 2019), and Chairman of The Sports Nexus Trust and Harnham Water Meadows Trust. He was President of Salisbury City F.C. and is a member of the MCC. In January 2009 he challenged Giles Clarke for the chairmanship of the ECB but was unsuccessful, despite having pledged to raise a £100m capital fund for development across all 18 counties if elected as chairman.[8]

He is a former Trustee of the Holburne Museum in Bath, and Development Board Member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Personal life

Lord Marland was born in Windsor, and has four children. [9]

Honours and awards

He was awarded a life peerage on 8 June 2006 as Baron Marland, of Odstock in the County of Wiltshire.[10] In 2015, he was awarded the Order of Merit of Malta.[11]

Arms
Coat of arms of Jonathan Marland, Baron Marland
Adopted
2007
Coronet
Coronet of a Baron
Crest
A lion sejant erect Or gorged with a plain collar attached thereto a line terminating in a ring Sable and holding between the forefeet a bobbin also Sable the yarn Or.
Escutcheon
Azure on each of three bars wavy Or two martlets respectant Sable.
Supporters
On either side a labrador Sable gorged with a plain collar Or and holding in the interior forepaw three bulrushes Sable slipped and leaved Or.
Motto
Fortior Leone Justus (A Just Man Is Stronger Than A Lion)[12]
Badge
Two martlets respectant that on the dexter quarterly Sable and Or and that on the sinister quarterly Or and Sable.
Symbolism
The Arms are a variation on those hitherto borne by the family without proper authority. Black labradors have been increasingly popular in heraldry; and in this instance they are shown holding bullrushes as the grantee is Chairman of a marshland environmental project. The bobbin in the Crest refers to the grantee's wife Penelope. The classical Penelope was associated with weaving a winding sheet during the absence of her husband Odysseus.

References
  1. "The Rt Hon Lord Marland". GOV.UK.
  2. "Tory donors among investors in Cambridge Analytica parent firm". the Guardian. 21 March 2018.
  3. "Conservatives criticised for links to Cambridge Analytica". The Financial Times.
  4. Barry, Ellen (20 April 2018). "Long Before Cambridge Analytica, a Belief in the 'Power of the Subliminal' (Published 2018)". The New York Times.
  5. "Media Release: Department of Energy and Climate Change". Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  6. "Lord Marland hired to boost trade and investment". The Telegraph.
  7. "Our Board". Commonwealth Enterprise & Investment Council. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  8. "Marland withdraws from ECB race". 19 January 2009 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  9. "The Rt Hon Lord Marland". government.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  10. "No. 58027". The London Gazette. 26 June 2006. p. 8671.
  11. "Proud day for 24 as they receive highest honours". Times of Malta. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  12. Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 3570.
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