Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley

Roger Edward Richard Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley ( born August 14, 1930) is a British chartered accountant and hereditary peer.

The son of Robert Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley, was a pupil at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire. He studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in science and economics from. When his father died in 1978 he inherited the title of Baron Chorley.

Chorley worked from 1954 to 1990 with Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC), where he was partners is between the 1967 and 1989. Between 1974 and 1977 he was a member of the Royal Press Commission ( Royal Commission on the Press ) and 1978 and 1979 the Ordnance Survey Review Committee. From 1980 to 1991 he was a board member of the Royal National Theatre. Between 1981 and 1999 he was a member of the British Council, from 1991 as its Vice Chairman.

Between 1985 and 1987 stood Chorley before the Committee on Handling of Geographic Information, which became known as Chorley Committee. The committee made ​​recommendations for the adoption of the present paper maps into computer-aided databases to make government data accessible for coordinate systems and postal code assignment and for measures to promote geographic information systems.

Between 1987 and 1990 he was President of the Royal Geographical Society.

Chorley is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers who hold a seat in the House of Lords. He was elected to the House of Lords in 2001 and there replaced the recently deceased Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon.

Chorley is married to Ann Elizabeth Debenham since 1964, they have two sons.