Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton

Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton

Raymond Hervey Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton ARICS (born 13 June 1932) is a British peer and landowner. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

The elder son of the 4th Baron Hylton and Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith (herself granddaughter of H.H. Asquith), he was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in history in 1955. In 1951 and 1952, he served in the Coldstream Guards, and in 1967, he succeeded to his father's title.

Joliffe was Assistant Private Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada between 1960 and 1962. Since 1962, he was member of the Abbeyfield Society, the Catholic Housing Aid Society, the London Housing Aid Centre, the National Federation of Housing Associations, Mencap, the Foundation for Alternatives, the Hugh of Witham Foundation, and the Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability (ABCD), and has worked for the Age Concern, L'Arche Ltd as well as the Mendip Wansdyke Local Enterprise Group. Since 1988, he is further president of the Northern Ireland Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders. He is a member of the Housing Associations Charitable Trust and of Forward Thinking.

Jolliffe is a trustee of the Acorn Christian Healing Trust and vice-chairman of Partners in hope.From 1993 to 2001, he was chairman of the St Francis and St Sergius Trust Fund. For the Ammerdown Study Centre, near Bath, he is trustee and governor. In 1960 he was appointed an Associate of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and in 1994, he received an honorary doctorate of the University of Southampton.

Since 1966, he has been married to Joanna de Bertodano, granddaughter of the 6th Earl of Mexborough. They have a daughter and four sons, including his heir William Henry Martin Jolliffe.

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