Richard William Brinsley Norton, 8th Baron Grantley (born 30 January 1956), is a retired banker and politician.
A councillor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from 1982 to 1986, he was the Conservative parliamentary candidate for the Wentworth constituency at the 1983 general election.
On 24 June 1995 he succeeded his father, John Norton, 7th Baron Grantley,[4] and thus became UKIP's first representative in Parliament.
In 1981 Grantley became a banker and international project financier at Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank, and HSBC.
[5] He also participated in the successful campaign to prevent the developers of the Chelsea Barracks site from demolishing the Garrison Church.
In 1972 he reached the final of the Daily Mail National Schools Bridge Competition; he was a regular member of the House of Lords bridge team in its annual matches against the House of Commons; and he was a member of the Polish Club team which won the Devonshire Cup in 2011 and 2015.