Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott

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Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott, PC (born 1 November 1940) is a British Labour politician and life peer. He has sat in the House of Lords since 2001.

He was a Member of Parliament for three terms, representing Lichfield and Tamworth (1974–1979), The Wrekin (1987–1997), and Telford (1997–2001). He studied politics at the University of Leicester (BA, 1962) and earned an MA from the University of Manchester. Grocott worked as a lecturer and later as a TV presenter and producer for Central Television, and he served on Bromsgrove Urban District Council.

In Parliament, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Local Government and Planning, then to Tony Blair when he was Leader of the Opposition and later Prime Minister (1994–2001). He became a life peer as Baron Grocott, of Telford, in 2001 and soon joined the government whip’s team in the House of Lords. From 2002 to 2008 he was the Government Chief Whip in the Lords and Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, and he was sworn into the Privy Council in 2002.

Grojcott has pushed for reform of the Lords, including ending by-elections for hereditary peers. In 2013 he became Chancellor of the University of Leicester, the first former student to hold that post; he served until 2018.

He is married with two sons and lives in Staffordshire.