British businessman and politician (1928–2019)
Tordoff in the Lords chamber, 2012
Geoffrey Johnson Tordoff, Baron Tordoff (11 October 1928 – 22 June 2019) was a British businessman and politician.
Biography
The son of Stanley Acomb Tordoff, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology . Tordoff worked for Shell from 1950 to 1983, first as marketing executive of Shell Chemicals , then as public affairs manager for Shell UK . Between 1986 and 1992 he was Honorary President of the British Youth Council . From 1990 to 1994 he was chair of the Middle East Committee of the Refugee Council . He was a member of the Press Complaints Commission between 1995 and 2002.
As a Liberal Party candidate, Tordoff contested Northwich in the 1964 general election and Knutsford in the 1966 general election and 1970 general election . On 11 May 1981 he was created a life peer as Baron Tordoff , of Knutsford in the County of Cheshire [1] and sat in the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat until his retirement on 13 October 2016.[2]
He was elected President of the Liberal Party for 1984–1985. In 1953, he married Mary Patricia Swarbrick (died 11 April 2013).[3] They had three daughters and two sons. He died on 22 June 2019 at the age of 90.[4]
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