Lord Black of Brentwood
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The Right Honourable The Lord Black of Brentwood FRSA |
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| Born | 6 August 1964 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Bolland |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge University |
Guy Vaughan Black, Baron Black of Brentwood FRSA (born 6 August 1964) is Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group and a Conservative Life Peer member of the House of Lords.
His career has spanned politics and the media. In the Media Guardian Top 100 listings in September 2012, he was ranked 55. He is a member of the Association of Conservative Peers.
Black was director of the political section at the Conservative Research Department from 1986 to 1989 when David Cameron was his deputy.
One of twins, Black was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and then Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he held the John Cosin scholarship and won the Sir Herbert Butterfield Prize for history. He graduated from there with double first class honours in history in 1985.
After working for a year at Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Black joined the Conservative Research Department in 1986. He was a member of the Brentwood and Ongar Conservative Association from 1982 to 1992.
He left CRD in 1989 to become Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Energy, John Wakeham, who was then spearheading the privatisation of the electricity industry.
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