LORD MAYHEW OF TWYSDEN

K College President

Patrick Mayhew was born in 1929 and has lived in West Kent for most of his life. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Balliol College, Oxford. After a period of service in the Army, Lord Mayhew practised as a barrister, becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1972 and a bencher of the middle Temple in 1976. Patrick Mayhew was elected as Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells in 1974 and represented the constituency until retirement in 1997.

He served as a minister for 18 years and became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in 1992. In 1997 he was created a Life Peer by former Prime Minister John Major and now participates frequently in debates and Committees in the House of Lords. He became President of West Kent College in 1995, the first President of a Patrons' Group for any college in the country.