Patrick Holcroft

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Lt. Col. Patrick Roy Holcroft LVO OBE CStJ (born March 1948) is an English retired soldier and banker who is the present Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire, that is the British monarch's personal representative in the county.[1]

Career[]

He was educated at Downside School, the University of Nottingham (BA, 1972), and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[2] He served 19 years in the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, before pursuing a career in the City of London with the UK merchant banking group Robert Fleming & Co. in 1988.

Holcroft remained with the bank as CEO of its Lloyds re-insurance broking business and a director of the investment management business until the bank was acquired in 2000 by Chase Manhattan Bank. Following a buyout, he became CEO of the renamed RFIB group. He remained CEO of the group until 2009, becoming a non executive director until 2012. He was also a non executive director of the Griffin Insurance Association until 2012 and a non executive director of Thomas Miller Holdings until 2016.

Holcroft was born and brought up in Worcestershire, became a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire in 2009 and was appointed to his present position on 28 December 2012.[3] He was appointed an Officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 New Year Honours.,[4] LVO in the New Year’s Honours List 2013 and CStJ in 2018.

He is a trustee or adviser to The Grenadier Guards, Nuffield Trust for the Forces of the Crown; the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; The Hedley Foundation, which supports young people, the disabled and the terminally ill; and until 2014 the Lloyd's Patriotic Fund. He is also President or Patron of a number of Worcestershire based charities, including New College Worcester, Worcestershire Ambassadors, The Worcestershire Community Foundation, Worcestershire and Dudley Historic Churches; and he is a member of the Council of Worcestershire Cathedral.

Personal life[]

He lives near Tenbury Wells and is married to former Vanity Fair publisher Annie Roberts Holcroft in 1982. They have three sons: former soldier Oliver James (born 1985), actor Edward Patrick (born 1987) and Thomas William (born 1992).[3][5][6]

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References[]

  1. ^ "Lt Col Patrick Holcroft LVO, OBE - University of Worcester". University of Worcester. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Holcroft, Lt Col Patrick Roy, (born 17 March 1948), Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire, since 2012." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 18 Mar. 2018.
  3. ^ a b Davies, Sarah (2 January 2013). "New Lord Lieutenant appointed for Worcestershire". Worcester News. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  4. ^ "No. 50764". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1986. p. 5.
  5. ^ "How to make your child's brain bigger". Tatler. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  6. ^ Aftab, Kaleem (6 November 2017). "Edward Holcroft on Alias Grace, Gunpowder and Michael Fassbender". The Independent. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  7. ^ "The Lord-Lieutenant Information - Worcestershire Lieutenancy".


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