NHS Bury’s Locality Board Chairman appointed as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester
Paul Horrocks, Locality Board Chairman for NHS Bury has been appointed as Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Greater Manchester.
The role of a Deputy Lord Lieutenant is to perform the role of the Queen's representative in the region when the Lord Lieutenant is not available.
The Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester, Warren J Smith Esq. J.P., appointed Paul, along with three others to be Deputy Lord Lieutenants of Greater Manchester. They join the 66 other Deputy Lord Lieutenants in the region.
Paul has fulfilled the role of Chairman for NHS Bury since 1st August 2010. He left the Manchester Evening News in 2009, having been the Editor since 1997. He joined the Manchester Evening News in 1975 as a general news reporter from the Daily Mail. He is the former President of the UK Society of Editors, and was a member of the Press Complaints Commission for four years.
Paul's community interests include membership of the fund raising board for the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Our Life which promotes health and well being in the North West, Directorship of Midas (a not-for-profit organisation that provides free help and advice to companies who are relocating to Manchester) and Directorship of Tatton Park Trust. He is also the Director of two Media and Communications Consultancies; Essential Communications and the Gordon Burns Partnership, and an Independent Governor of the University of Bolton.
Born and bred in Bury, Paul and his four grown up children all live and work in the borough.
Regarding his appointment Paul Horrocks said: “I was really pleased and honoured by the appointment, it is such a privilege.”
Paul will continue in his role as Locality Board Chairman for NHS Bury.