Education
Jopling was educated at Cheltenham College and Durham University.
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Michael Michael Jopling
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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. Having previously stood unsuccessfully in Wakefield in 1959, Jopling was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Westmorland, now in Cumbria, in 1964 and became Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1979 to 1983.
In 1983, he was elected for Westmorland and Lonsdale after boundary changes, and was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1983 to 1987.
Jopling was made a life peer as Baron Jopling, of Ainderby Quernhow in the County of North Yorkshire on 5 June 1997.
Membership
43rd United Kingdom Parliament. 44th United Kingdom Parliament. 45th United Kingdom Parliament.
46th United Kingdom Parliament.
47th United Kingdom Parliament. 48th United Kingdom Parliament.
49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament.
51st United Kingdom Parliament]
In his Diaries, the military historian and Tory member of Parliament Alan Clark famously quoted what he claimed was Jopling"s "snobby but cutting" dismissal of the ambitious Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine: "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture".
He is a member of the Privy Council and the America All Party Parliamentary Group.
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