The Lord Grimstone of Boscobel | |
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Minister of State for Investment | |
In office 18 March 2020 – 7 July 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | The Baroness Fairhead |
Succeeded by | The Lord Johnson of Lainston |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 21 April 2020 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gerald Edgar Grimstone 27 August 1949[1] Streatham, London, England |
Children | 3 |
Education | Whitgift School |
Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford |
Occupation | Chairman, Standard Life Chairman, Barclays Bank plc |
Gerald Edgar Grimstone, Baron Grimstone of Boscobel (born 27 August 1949) is a British businessman. He was previously chairman of Barclays Bank plc and of Standard Life and group deputy chairman of Barclays plc, the holding company for the Barclays Group.
On 18 March 2020, he became an unpaid minister at the Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and it was announced he would become a life peer.