Thomas Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, PC

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 (born 10 December 1930) is a politician in the United Kingdom

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, and sits in the House of Lords

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 as a member of the Conservative Party

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.

Jopling was educated at Cheltenham College

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 and Durham University

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. He was a farmer and company director, and served on the national council of the National Farmers Union. He was a councillor on Thirsk Rural District Council.

Jopling was elected Conservative MP for Westmorland

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, now in Cumbria

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, in 1964 and became Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury

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 from 1979 to 1983.
In 1983, he was elected for Westmorland and Lonsdale

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 after boundary changes, and was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

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 from 1983 to 1987.

In his Diaries, the military historian and occasional Tory member of Parliament Alan Clark

Alan Clark

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 famously quoted what he claimed was Jopling's "snobby but cutting" dismissal of the ambitious Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine

Michael Heseltine

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC is a British businessman, Conservative politician and patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001 and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major...

: "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy his own furniture".

Jopling was made a life peer

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 as Baron Jopling, of Ainderby Quernhow in the County of North Yorkshire

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 in 1997. He is a member of the Privy Council

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 and the America All Party Parliamentary Group

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.

His younger son, Jay Jopling

Jay Jopling

Jeremy "Jay" Jopling is an English art dealer and gallery owner. He is closely associated with the YBA artists and his gallery White Cube represents the commercial interests of YBAs Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Marcus Harvey, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Marc Quinn, and Sam Taylor-Wood, whom he...

, is a British

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 contemporary art

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 dealer

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 and gallerist.

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