Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff

The son of Stanley Acomb Tordoff, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Between 1986 and 1992 he was Honorary President of the British Youth Council.

From 1990 to 1994 he was chair of the Middle East Committee of the Refugee Council.

On 11 May 1981 he was created a life peer as Baron Tordoff, of Knutsford in the County of Cheshire[1] and sat in the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat until his retirement on 13 October 2016.

In 1953, he married Mary Patricia Swarbrick (died 11 April 2013).