Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley

Obituary The Guardian

Took over the chair of the National Trust in 1991

The Peerage

Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley

• Born on 14 August 1930.
• Son of Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley and Katharine Campbell Hopkinson.
• Married Ann Elizabeth Debenham, daughter of Archibald Scott Debenham, on 31 October 1964.
• Died on 21 February 2016 at age 85.
• Educated at Stowe School, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England
• Graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
• Accountant with Cooper Brothers & Company (later Coopers and Lybrand), becoming a partner between 1955 and 1989.
• Appointed Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants (F.C.A.)
• Succeeded as the 2nd Baron Chorley, of Kendal, co. Westmorland [U.K., 1945] on 27 January 1978.
• Visiting Professor, Department of Management Science in 1979 at Imperial College, London, EnglandG.
• Awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by Reading University, Reading, Berkshire, England, in 1990.
• Awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by Kingston University, EnglandG, in 1992.
• Awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D.) by Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, in 1995.
• Lived in 2003 at Fieldhead House, Hawkshead, Cumbria, England

Children of Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley and Ann Elizabeth Debenham

• Nicholas Rupert Debenham Chorley, 3rd Baron Chorley b. 15 Jul 1966
• Hon. Christopher Robert Hopkinson Chorley b. 28 Jun 1968
  

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Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley (born 14 August 1930) British chartered accountant and peer.

The son of the 1st Baron Chorley was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in natural sciences and economics in 1953. He succeeded to his father's title in 1987.

Chorley worked for Coopers and Lybrand from 1954 to 1990, as partner from 1967 to 1989. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the Press between 1974 and 1977, and of the Ordnance Survey Review Committee in 1978 and 1979. From 1980 to 1991, he was also a board member of the Royal National Theatre, and from 1981 to 1999 of the British Council. Between 1991 and 1999, he was also the latter's deputy chairman.

Between 1985 and 1987 Chorley chaired the Committee on Handling of Geographic Information, known as the Chorley Committee. This made recommendations on the conversion of Ordnance Survey maps from paper to computer form, making more Government data available, Grid referencing and Postcode referencing of data, measures to promote the use of computerised Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and investment required in training and research and development.

A patron of the British Mountaineering Council, Chorley was further a member of the Top Salaries Review Body from 1981 to 1991, of the Ordnance Survey Advisory Board from 1982 to 1985, and of the Natural Environment Research Council 1988 to 1994. Between 1987 and 1990, he was President of the Royal Geographical Society. He is a member of The Integrated Sciences Advisory Panel.

He was one of the ninety elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. Being the runner-up in the 1999 election, he replaced the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, after the latter's death in 2001. He resigned from the House under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 17 November 2014.

1964, Lord Chorley married to Ann Elizabeth Debenham; - two sons.