The Right Honourable
The Lord Marland
Official portrait, 2023
Chairman of Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
8 June 2006
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Jonathan Peter Marland

(1956-08-14) 14 August 1956
Political partyConservative

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 which is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes trade, investment, and the role of the private sector across the 56 Commonwealth member states.[1]

Education

Marland was educated at Shrewsbury School.[2]

Business career

Marland was one of the founding directors of Jardine Lloyd Thompson, a multinational insurance business, where he led the acquisitions of companies including Hunter Boot Ltd (2006),[3] and backed the online news magazine The World Weekly (2013).[4] He also founded the Jubilee insurance company at Lloyd’s of London.[2]

He continues his involvement in the business world, and is the chairman at both Bspoke Insurance Group Ltd and EcoWorld 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".[5][6][7]

Political career

Government posts

In 2010, Marland was made a Minister at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.[8]

In May 2011 he was appointed as the Chairman of the British Business Ambassadors by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI).[9]

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.[10]

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

Lord Marland frequently provides commentary on British Politics. He initiated the Peer Review Podcast, featuring interviews with a curated selection of House of Lords Peers in 2023.[11]

Other interests

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

In December 2021, the Prime Minister appointed Lord Marland as a Trustee of the British Museum.[12]

He is the Chairman of Tickets for Troops and sits on the Advisory Board of the International Churchill Society, formerly known as The Churchill Centre UK, where he previously served as Chairman.[13][14] He is a Founding Trustee of the Atlantic Partnership.

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

He was the President of The Commonwealth Youth Orchestra and Choir, and served as Chairman and Trustee for the Guggenheim UK Charitable Trust for 20 years. He was a member of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum Executive Board.

Sport

He is a Patron of Salisbury and South Wiltshire Cricket and Hockey Club. He was 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.[15]

Personal life

Lord Marland was born in Windsor and has four children.[2][16]

Honours and awards

He was awarded a life peerage on 8 June 2006 as Baron Marland, of Odstock in the County of Wiltshire.[17] In recognition of his longstanding contributions to the advancement of commercial and bilateral relations with Malta, he was honoured with the Maltese Order of Merit in 2015.[18]

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)[19]
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. ↑ "Lord Marland". CWEIC. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Rt Hon Lord Marland". GOV.UK. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Buyer found for famous boot firm". BBC News: Scotland. 28 April 2006. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  4. ↑ Greenslade, Roy (17 January 2013). "New magazine launches in London". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Tory donors among investors in Cambridge Analytica parent firm". the Guardian. 21 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Conservatives criticised for links to Cambridge Analytica". The Financial Times.
  7. ↑ Barry, Ellen (20 April 2018). "Long Before Cambridge Analytica, a Belief in the 'Power of the Subliminal' (Published 2018)". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ "Media Release: Department of Energy and Climate Change". Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  9. ↑ "Lord Marland hired to boost trade and investment". The Telegraph.
  10. ↑ "Our Board". Commonwealth Enterprise & Investment Council. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  11. ↑ many.bio/peerreviewpod
  12. ↑ "The Prime Minister has appointed Lord Marland of Odstock and Priyanka Wadhawan as Trustees of the British Museum". GOV.UK. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  13. ↑ "Board of Advisors". International Churchill Society. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  14. ↑ "International Churchill Society United Kingdom". International Churchill Society. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  15. ↑ "Marland withdraws from ECB race". 19 January 2009 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  16. ↑ https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20200829/282265257816802
  17. ↑ "No. 58027". The London Gazette. 26 June 2006. p. 8671.
  18. ↑ "Proud day for 24 as they receive highest honours". Times of Malta. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  19. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 3570.
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