John Richard Batch, who died 11 December, 2024, aged 93, was the husband of the late Baroness Blatch, CBE, PC, sometime Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, who died 31 May, 2005, aged 67.
He was born in 1931, a son of George Henry Blatch (1887-1964), and his wife the former Madeline Mary Whitticom (1901-1953), and married in 1963, Emily May Triggs (born 24 July, 1937), daughter of Stephen Joseph and Sarah Triggs, by whom he had issue, two sons and a daughter.
Baroness Blatch's career: WRAF 1955-59; Ministry of Aviation, 1959-63; Member of the Board of Peterborough Development Corporation, 1984-89; Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, 1981-85; European Economic and Social Committee, 1986-87; Conservative Local National Local Govt Advisory Committee, 1988-92; Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) House of Lords, 1990; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment, 1990-91; Minister of State, Department of the Environment, 1991-92; Home Office, 1994-97; Opposition front bench spokesman on education and employment, 1997-2000; Deputy Leader of the Opposition House of Lords from 2000; Vice-President, Local Government Assoc., from 2000; Chairman, Anglo-American Community Relations Committee, RAF Alconbury, 1985-91; President, National Benevolent Institution from 1989; Member, Air League Council, from 1998; Member, Air Cadet Council from 1998; Trustee, Dorman Museum Appeal, Middlesbrough, from 1997; Trustee, RAF Museum, from 1998; President, Shakespeare at The George, Huntingdon, from 1995; Patron, Huntingdon Male Voice Choir, from 1997, &c.
Baroness Blatch was appointed CBE in 1983, and sworn of the Privy Council in 1993. She was raised to the peerage (for life) in 1987 as Baroness Blatch, of Hinchingbrooke, in the County of Cambridgeshire.
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