The Earl of Shrewsbury DL
Conservative
Member of the House of Lords
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The Earl of Shrewsbury's full title is The Earl of Shrewsbury DL. His name is Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
27 Content(16.7%)
0 Not-Content(0.0%)
135 didn't vote(83.3%)
2026-03-05
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193–143
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194–140
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198–139
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208–142
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Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't
publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on bringing this extremely important matter to your Lordships’ attention, and I support his Motion. I declare my interest as a member of the GWCT, the BASC and the Countryside Alliance.
As my noble friend has a
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Countryside Alliance, a retired member of the National Farmers’ Union, a former member of the National Sheep Association and a retired sheep farmer, and I own a working dog. I think that clears that litt
2025-06-12
Wildfires
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Caithness on securing this important debate. It is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Jack and to congratulate him on an excellent and most informative maiden speech. We look forward to hearing
2025-04-03
Farming and Rural Communities
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Roborough on securing this important and timely debate. I declare interests as a member of the Game Conservancy Trust, now the GWCT, and a retired member of the NFU; both my sons work in land management and
2025-03-03
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
The noble Lord, Lord Grocott, is a good friend. He lives close to where I live in Staffordshire. Out of those 34 hereditary Peers that he mentions, how many are old Etonians? Because I would like to point out to him that I am an old Harrovian.
2024-12-11
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, when I came into this House nearly 44 years ago, I was given great advice by my godfather Earl St Aldwyn, a greatly respected former Conservative Chief Whip. He advised me: “You are here to speak and vote on your conscience. Do not be bullied b
2024-11-21
Farming Families
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, on securing this important debate and making such a powerful speech. I declare my interest as a member of the National Farmers’ Union. In addition, my eldest son is a land agent and my youngest
2024-09-12
Wild Atlantic Salmon
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Salmon and Trout Association and the GWCT, and I am in my 50th year of fishing on the River Deveron.
In around 1580, salmon was so prolific on English rivers that apprentices’ indentures on my family’
My Lords, I broadly welcome this Bill, promoted by my honourable friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South. I congratulate him on bringing forward this initiative, but I have some doubts as to whether his Bill is the panacea he believes it to be. The qu
2024-05-09
Rural Crime
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for that reply. Rural theft cost the UK £49.5 million in 2022 and that overall trend is increasing exponentially today. Fly-tipping continues to be the most prolific form of rural crime. Is my noble friend satis
2024-05-09
Rural Crime
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper. In doing so, I declare my interests as a retired farmer and a member of the National Farmers’ Union.
2024-05-09
Rural Crime
To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they are making in tackling rural crime.
My Lords, I declare an interest as a non-farming retired member of the National Farmers’ Union. I have been involved in agriculture all my working life.
I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Redesdale, and his committee on their excellent report. It is
2022-09-10
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
My Lords, I cannot describe adequately the sadness which I and my family feel at the passing of Her late Majesty the Queen. It is a great privilege and honour to have been given the task of opening the batting, so to speak, for my party in your Lordships
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, on securing his Second Reading debate today, and for giving me the opportunity to put on a tie for the first time in six weeks, with my arm in a sling—quite a difficult one.
I suppor
2022-04-06
Ukraine: Refugees
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Helic on securing this most important of debates and I welcome the opportunity to continue to bring to my noble friend the Minister’s attention the case of two young Ukrainian nationals whose ongoing plight h
2022-04-01
Animals (Penalty Notices) Bill
My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Randall of Uxbridge, I beg to move that this Bill do now pass. I declare my interest as a member of the National Farmers’ Union.
I know that my noble friend Lord Randall of Uxbridge was delighted to be asked
2022-04-01
Animals (Penalty Notices) Bill
That the Bill do now pass.
2022-03-18
Animals (Penalty Notices) Bill
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on bringing forward this Bill to your Lordships’ House today; I believe it to be a most worthwhile Bill. I, too, was initially approached by the Whips’ Office to promote it, but, thank heavens, my noble friend, wh
2022-03-04
Office for Demographic Change Bill [HL]
My Lords, I apologise to the noble Baroness; it is such an excellent Bill that I got a little overenthusiastic.
I support my noble friend’s Bill and I congratulate him on bringing it to your Lordships’ House. I read his background briefing to Civitas,
2022-03-04
Office for Demographic Change Bill [HL]
I beg your pardon.
2022-03-04
Office for Demographic Change Bill [HL]
My Lords, I support my noble friend’s Bill and congratulate him on bringing it to your Lordships’ House.
2021-09-13
Environment Bill
My Lords, I am very pleased to support Amendment 123, from the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Ladyton. I declare an interest, as on the record from previous debates on this Bill. I will not cover again all the points I made both at Second Reading and in Comm
2021-09-13
Transport: Hydrogen
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the APPG on Hydrogen. Does my noble friend agree that it is most encouraging to see that momentum is building across industry, both in the UK and overseas, to develop engine-based solutions using hydrogen? W
2021-07-12
Environment Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 293A tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Ladyton, whom I congratulate on bringing this matter forward. I have added my name to the amendment. I declare an interest as a former chairman of the Firearms Consultative
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Register of Interests · 7 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Senior adviser providing commercial and marketing advice to Inventus Group Ltd (wireless telecommunications equipment)
registered 2026-02-16
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Non-executive director, Cheshire Blocks Limited (concrete manufacturing)
registered 2026-02-16
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Non-executive director, Cheshire Land Limited
registered 2026-02-16
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Director, Tout a L’Heure Limited (dormant)
registered 2026-02-16
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Director, Talbot Consulting Limited (promoting goods and services in the US and UK, particularly driven game shooting and sporting clay pigeon events; all income including speaking engagement fees are paid to the company, from which the member and wife draw dividends) (current clients are Cheshire Land Limited and Cheshire Blocks Limited (concrete manufacturing))
registered 2026-02-16
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Tout a L’Heure Limited (dormant) (owned jointly with wife)
registered 2026-02-16
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Talbot Consulting Limited
registered 2026-02-16
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Party history
2023-11-15 → 2026-04-29
Conservative
2022-10-20 → 2023-11-14
Non-affiliated
1999-10-12 → 2022-10-19
Conservative
1981-02-16 → 1999-10-11
Crossbench
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2003-07-11 → 2003-11-28
Draft Civil Contingencies Bill (Joint Committee)
2009-11-25 → 2014-01-29
Works of Art Committee (Lords)
2016-09-01 → 2018-06-12
Services Committee
2016-09-13 → 2016-11-09
Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
Contact
No contact details recorded.
APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 3 historic
Not currently an officer of any active APPG. Was officer of 3 group(s) historically — those rotated off in later snapshots.
Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the
primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are
members of either House who
backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
date.
Historic bills (all-time)
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.