Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle

Who is Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle?

Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle, Baron Hoyle, known as Lord Hoyle, JP is a British Labour politician and former Member of Parliament for Nelson and Colne and Warrington North.

Hoyle was first elected at the October 1974 general election for Nelson and Colne. He narrowly lost his seat at the 1979 general election, but returned to Parliament in 1981 when he saw off a strong challenge from Roy Jenkins in a traditional safe Labour seat, in a notable by-election in Warrington when enthusiasm for the newly created Social Democratic Party was at its peak. Constituency boundaries were redrawn for the 1983 general election.

Hoyle stepped down at the 1997 general election, and on 14 May 1997 he was created a Life Peer as Baron Hoyle, of Warrington in the County Palatine of Cheshire.

He is the chairman of Warrington Wolves Rugby League Club and a non-executive director of the major local employer Debt Free Direct.

Lord Hoyle, already a Freeman of Gibraltar, was awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour, in March 2010, for being a 'supporter of Gibraltar and its people'.