David Shutt, Baron Shutt of Greetland

David Trevor Shutt, Baron Shutt of Greetland, OBE, PC (16 March 1942 – 30 October 2020) was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords between May 2010 and May 2012.

Shutt was born at Farsley, Leeds and attended Pudsey Grammar School in Yorkshire.

[2] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1993 New Year Honours,[3] and on 12 May 2000 was created a life peer as Baron Shutt of Greetland, of Greetland and Stainland in the County of West Yorkshire.

Following the 2005 general election, he was appointed the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords.

After the formation of the coalition government headed by David Cameron in May 2010, Shutt was appointed Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords, positions he held until May 2012, when he stepped down as the Liberal Democrats' Lords Chief Whip.