John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble

Who is John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble?

John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble is a Conservative life peer and member of the House of Lords. He is also Deputy Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance.

Educated at Royal Holloway, University of London, he graduated with a BA in Modern History, Economic History and Politics in 1977. He served as private secretary to five successive Chairmen of the Conservative Party between 1989 and 1995, under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. He has also worked as Director of Political Affairs for the Countryside Alliance, and served on the Quality of Life Commission Rural Affairs Group of the Conservative Party.

He was raised to the peerage as Baron Gardiner of Kimble, of Kimble in the County of Buckinghamshire on 23 June 2010. In the Lords he serves as a government whip and spokesman on the Cabinet Office, Business, Innovation and Skills and Energy and Climate Change.

He is married to the sculptor Olivia Musgrave. He lives in London and Suffolk and is a partner of the family farm at Kimble in Buckinghamshire. He was Chairman of the Vale of Aylesbury with Garth and South Berks Hunt from 1992–2006 and President of the Buckinghamshire County Show 2007.