Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton

Raymond Hervey Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton ( born June 13, 1932) is a British politician, member of the House of Lords and noble landowners.

Family

Raymond Jolliffe is the eldest son of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton, and his wife Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith († 1996). In 1966 he married Joanna de Bertodano. The marriage produced five children have emerged, including the heir William Henry Martin Jolliffe.

Life

He attended Eton College and then studied at Trinity College, Oxford. He graduated in 1955 with a Master of Arts in History. 1951 to 1952 he performed military service in the Coldstream Guards. Raymond Hervey Jolliffe worked 1960-1962 as deputy personal assistant to the Governor General of Canada. In 1960 he became an associate member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. In 1994 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Southampton.

Since 1962 he is member of a number of charitable organizations: The Abbeyfield Society ( a non-profit Catholic Wohnungsbauorganistaion ), the Catholic Housing Aid Society, the London Housing Aid Centre, the National Federation of Housing Associations ( the umbrella organization of non-profit housing organizations), Mencap ( a disability assistance organization ), the Foundation for Alternatives, of Hugh of Witham Foundation and the Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability (ABCD ). He worked for the L' Arche and the Mendip Wansdyke Local Enterprise Group. Since 1988 he is president of the Northern Ireland Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders. He is a member of the Housing Associations Charitable Trust and of Forward Thinking, a Trustee of the Acorn Christian Healing Trust Deputy Chairman of the Association Partners in Hope. Between 1993 and 2001 he was chairman of St Francis and St Sergius Trust Fund. He is Chairman of the Ammer Down Study Centre.

Policy

In 1967 he inherited the title of Baron Hylton from his father and thus also its seat in the House of Lords. With the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, he lost along with all other Erbpeers ( Hereditary peers) the automatic seat in the House of Lords. However, he was chosen as one of 90 selected Erbpeers that remained after the reform in the House.