Timothy Kirkhope

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The Right Honourable The Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate
Official portrait, 2019
Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists Acting
In office 24 June 2009 – 14 July 2009
Vice-Chairs	Adam Bielan Jan Zahradil
Succeeded by	Michał Kamiński
Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists
In office 14 July 2009 – 14 December 2011
Chairman	Michał Kamiński Jan Zahradil
Succeeded by	Jan Zahradil Geoffrey Van Orden Ryszard Legutko Derk Jan Eppink
Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament
In office 18 November 2008 – 23 November 2010
Preceded by	Philip Bushill-Matthews
Succeeded by	Martin Callanan
In office December 2004 – November 2007
Preceded by	Jonathan Evans
Succeeded by	Giles Chichester
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration and Border Controls
In office 18 October 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Nicholas Baker
Succeeded by	George Howarth
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
In office 7 July 1995 – 18 October 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Sydney Chapman
Succeeded by	Andrew MacKay
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office 11 December 1992 – 5 July 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Tim Boswell
Succeeded by	Simon Burns
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 October 2016 Life Peerage
Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber
In office 10 June 1999 – 1 September 2016
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	John Proctor
Member of Parliament for Leeds North East
In office 11 June 1987 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Keith Joseph
Succeeded by	Fabian Hamilton
Personal details
Born	(1945-04-29) 29 April 1945 (age 79) Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
Profession	Solicitor
Website	https://www.kirkhope.org.uk/

Timothy John Robert Kirkhope, Baron Kirkhope of Harrogate (born 29 April 1945) is a British lawyer and politician who previously served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber for the Conservative Party. After serving for ten years as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North East, he was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999. Between December 2004 and November 2010 he was leader of the Conservative delegation for a total of six years. He was the chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel's Europe grouping, the European Conservatives Spokesman on Justice and Home Affairs, and a member of the European Parliament's U.S Delegation. In 2016, he was created a life peer.