Mark Lancaster

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Person.png Mark Lancaster   LinkedIn TwitterRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook, officer, politician)
Born12 May 1970
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
NationalityUK
Alma materKimbolton School, University of Buckingham, University of Exeter
Spouse • Katherine Reader
• Caroline Dinenage
Interest of"Philip Cross"
PartyConservative Party (UK)
British officer and politician. Deputy Commander of psychological warfare unit 77th Brigade from June 2018 to July 2020.

Employment.png Officer

In office
4 December 1988 - Present
EmployerUK/Army

Employment.png Deputy Commander

In office
June 2018 - July 2020
Employer77th Brigade

Employment.png Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
9 September 2012 – 12 May 2015 - Present
Preceded byStephen Barclay, Guto Bebb, David Evennett, Robert Goodwill, George Hollingbery, John MacGregor, Mel Stride"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.

Major General John Mark Lancaster, Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton is a British Conservative Party politician, a Member of the House of Lords and a British Army reserve officer.

He was Deputy Commander of psychological warfare unit 77th Brigade from June 2018 to July 2020.[1]

Career

Lancaster was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers on 4 December 1988.[2] Between 1988 and 1990 Lancaster served in the British Army on an extended SSLC in Hong Kong with the Queen's Gurkha Engineers before going to university. On 1 March 1990, he transferred his commission to the Army Reserve and was promoted lieutenant on 1 July 1991.[3]

Lancaster has been on active service three times, in Kosovo (1999–2000), Bosnia (2001–2002) and Afghanistan (2006).[4] He continues to serve in the General Staff Corps (late Royal Engineers), having previously commanded an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit.[5]

Lancaster was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 1 February 2012 and to colonel on 22 June 2017.[6] He was Deputy Commander of 77th Brigade from June 2018 to July 2020.[7] and was appointed Chair of the Reserve Forces 2030 review in January 2020.[8]

He was promoted to brigadier on 1 August 2020.[9] and worked as Deputy Director Joint Warfare at UK's Strategic Command.[10] until August 2023. It was announced on the 26th June 2023 that he has been appointed to be Director Reserves in the rank of Major General.

Politics

Lancaster was as Member of Parliament for North East Milton Keynes from 2005 until 2010, and then its successor seat [Milton Keynes North]] from the seat's creation at the 2010 general election until his retirement from the House of Commons at the 2019 general election. He was Minister in several appointments after the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010, first as Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury, before in May 2015 moving to the Ministry of Defence, first as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Veterans, Reserves and Personnel, and then, from 13 June 2017, as Minister of State for the Armed Forces. He worked in this role until his retirement from Government on 16 December 2019. He was granted a life peerage in the 2019 Dissolution Honours, and was created "Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton" on 16 September 2020.

He is married to politician Caroline Dinenage.[11]



 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Munich Security Conference/201812 February 201814 February 2018Munich
Bavaria
Germany
The 54th Munich Security Conference
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