Christopher John Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester, Baron Grantchester of Audlem (known as John Grantchester; born 8 April 1951), is a British peer and Labour politician.
In May 2026, it was announced that he was to be given one of 26 new life peerages, returning him to the House of Lords after the coming into force of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026.
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Early life
He is the son of the 2nd Baron Grantchester and Lady Grantchester (née Betty Moores) and was educated at Winchester College, where he was in the school football team, and at the London School of Economics, where he graduated Bachelor of Science in economics.
Business and charitable interests
Littlewoods
Grantchester is a grandson of John Moores, and his mother was nominally head of the Moores family, founders of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing businesses, until her death in 2019. Grantchester is a former director of Littlewoods and was ranked 149th in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2022 with an estimated net worth of £1.2 billion.
Football
He was a director of his favoured football team, Everton. He has frequently been listed in the FourFourTwo rich list as a result of his shareholding. As of December 2015, he owned 8.5% of the club. He left the Everton board in December 2000. He is a trustee of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts. He is also a trustee of the Everton Collection, which incorporates the David France Collection, the world's largest open-access club-specific football memorabilia collection, held in the Liverpool Record Office in Liverpool Central Library.
Dairy farming
Lord Grantchester runs a dairy farm near Crewe, Cheshire. He is chairman of the South West Cheshire Dairy Association, and a Council Member of both the Cheshire Agricultural Society and the Royal Agricultural Society.
Lord Grantchester was the chairman of one of the UK's largest milk and cheese businesses, Dairy Farmers of Britain, accounting for 10% of the UK milk market, when it entered receivership in June 2009.
House of Lords
In 1995, he succeeded to his father's title. He replaced the deceased Lord Milner of Leeds as one of the 92 hereditary peers remaining in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999 after defeating Viscount Hanworth by two votes to one in a by-election for the Labour seat in October 2003. He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
Under the leadership of Ed Miliband, he was an Opposition Whip from 8 October 2010 to 18 September 2015.