Richard John Grenville Spring, Baron Risby (born 24 September 1946) is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury St Edmunds from 1992 to 1997, and for West Suffolk from 1997 to 2010.

Spring resigned from this position in 1995, after News of the World published a story detailing a sex encounter he had allegedly been involved in.

[17] On 24 December 2010, Spring was created a life peer as Baron Risby of Haverhill in the County of Suffolk.

In November 2012, Lord Risby was announced as one of nine prime ministerial trade envoys, with responsibility for Algeria and, in 2019, Lebanon.

[24] In his capacity as the then Chairman of the British Ukrainian Society, he co-chaired the Scenarios for Ukraine programme for the World Economic Forum in Davos.

[26] In November 2023, Risby initiated a parliamentary debate to persuade the UK Government to declare the Ukrainian Holodomor as genocide.

[27] Risby has been a director of several businesses and organisations, including Hawkley Oil and Gas Ltd and Minexco Petroleum Inc, and was the president of the Association for Decentralised Energy.

[30] He is a Patron of the London Magazine and of the Open Road charity, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Council on Geostrategy.