Raymond Hervey Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, ARICS, Doctor of Laws is a British peer and landowner.
Background
He is the elder son of the 4th Baron Hylton and Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith (d 1996. Daughter of the late Raymond Asquith and sister of Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith and thus the granddaughter of former Prime Minister HH Asquith).
Education
He was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in History in 1955.
Career
He is one of 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Acting 1999. In 1951 and 1952, he served in the Coldstream Guards, and in 1967, he succeeded to his father"s title. Jolliffe was Assistant Private Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada between 1960 and 1962.
He has worked for Age Concern, L"Arche Limited 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. The result is that it can no longer be used in its original and rather delightful meaning."
From 1993-2001, he was chairman of the Street Francis and Street Sergius Trust Fund.
Foreign the Ammerdown Study Centre at Ammerdown House, Kilmersdon, 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.
Membership
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). He is a member of the Housing Associations Charitable Trust and of Forward Thinking. As a member of the House of Lords, he opposed same-sex marriage, adding that he regretted "very much that the fine old English and French word ‘gay’ has, in my lifetime, been appropriated by a small but vocal minority of the population.