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1 Career  


1.1  House of Lords  




1.2  Further functions  






2 Awards and honours  


2.1  British national honours  




2.2  Other British honours  




2.3  Foreign honours  




2.4  Dynastic honours  




2.5  Arms  






3 See also  




4 References  




5 External links  













Robert Balchin, Baron Lingfield






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The Right Honorable
The Lord Lingfield
DL KStJ
Member of the House of Lords

Incumbent

Assumed office
17 December 2010
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Personal details
Born

Robert George Alexander Balchin


(1942-07-31) 31 July 1942 (age 81)
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)The Lady Lingfield, Lady Balchin

Robert George Alexander Balchin, Baron Lingfield, DL KStJ (born 31 July 1942) is a British educationalist, noted as an advocate and pioneer for school autonomy.[1] He also served as Director-GeneralofSt. John Ambulance from 1984 to 1990.

Career[edit]

Lord Lingfield was chairman of the Grant-Maintained Schools Centre (formerly Foundation) from 1989 until 1999. He has been Chairman of the Centre for Education Management (now CEFM) since 1995.

He has written numerous articles on education and politics. His schools initiative was proclaimed by The Daily Telegraph's deputy editor, Benedict Brogan, as: "[being the] first and, as time passes, perhaps the most important legislative milestone achieved by the Coalition".[2]

House of Lords[edit]

Knighted in 1993,[3] becoming styledasSir Robert Balchin, he was raised to the peerage as a Life Peer on 17 December 2010 as Baron Lingfield, of Lingfield in the County of Surrey.[4][5] He sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords, and he speaks in parliament mainly on education matters.[6]

Further functions[edit]

He was Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor from 2006 to 2012,[9] and he has served as Honorary ColonelofHumberside and South Yorkshire ACF since 1 May 2004.[10]

Awards and honours[edit]

British national honours[edit]

Other British honours[edit]

Foreign honours[edit]

Dynastic honours[edit]

Arms[edit]

Coat of arms of Robert Balchin, Baron Lingfield
Adopted
The armorial bearingsofThe Lord Lingfield were confirmed by the College of Arms in 1975, with the additional grant of supporters after being elevated to the peerage.
Coronet
Coronet of a Baron
Crest
A Demi-Bagwyn Argent, armed and unguled Or, gorged with a Collar compony Or and Vert, charged with Anchors counter-changed, and supporting a Wooden Beam Proper, attached to the Collar by a Chain Or.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st & 4th, Vert, a Crescent between eight Mullets in lozenge Or (Balchin); 2nd & 3rd, Azure, a Chain fesswise each link per pale Or and Argent, between three Fleurs-de-Lis per pale Or and Argent (Skelton); en surtout, an Inescutcheon barry of six Ermine and Vert, charged with a Label of three Points in bend Or, each Point charged with an Annulet Gules (Kinlay-Balchin).
Supporters
Dexter: A Lion guardant Or, the body legs and tail semée of Spur Rowels spur upwards Gules, crowned with a Baron’s Coronet with Cap Proper;
Sinister: A Bagwyn Argent, armed, unguled and tail tufted Or, gorged with a Baron’s Coronet sans Cap Proper, attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back and terminating in an Annulet Or.
Motto
De Bonne Esperance
(Of Good Hope)
Badge
Pendent from a tassled Cord Or and Vert, an Escallop Or.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Lord Lingfield Kt DL Dlitt". Children's University. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  • ^ Benedict Brogan The Daily Telegraph 26 May 2011
  • ^ "No. 53284". The London Gazette. 23 April 1993. p. 7209.
  • ^ "No. 59641". The London Gazette. 22 December 2010. p. 24505.
  • ^ Hansard, publications.parliament.uk; accessed 6 November 2016.
  • ^ Profile, publications.parliament.uk; accessed 6 November 2016.
  • ^ "Deputy Lieutenant Commissions Lieutenancy of Greater London". The London Gazette. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  • ^ http://www.cvqo.org
  • ^ Profile, Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor website; accessed 6 November 2016.
  • ^ "Sir Robert Balchin's Appointment as Honorary Colonel of the Humberside and South Yorkshire Army Cadet Force". The London Gazette. Retrieved 22 January 2024.

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    Preceded by

    Sir Richard Gaskell

    		 Knight Principal
    of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor
    2006 – 2012     		Succeeded by

    Sir Colin Berry

    Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
    Preceded by

    The Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint

    		 Gentlemen
    Baron Lingfield     		Followed by

    The Lord Feldman of Elstree


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