{"id":81788,"date":"2017-06-22T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5e2ee6a537996a5b6804b54d45bf5589"},"modified":"2017-06-22T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T09:00:04","slug":"press-release-lord-lieutenant-of-essex-jennifer-tolhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81788","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Lord-Lieutenant of Essex: Jennifer Tolhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Queen has been pleased to appoint Mrs Jennifer Tolhurst DL as Her Majesty\u2019s Lord-Lieutenant of Essex when Lord Petre KCVO retires on 4 August 2017.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"biographical-notes\">Biographical Notes<\/h4>\n<p>Mrs Tolhurst is a former High Sheriff of Essex.  She started the Danbury and Little Baddow branch of the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nspcc.org.uk\/\">NSPCC<\/a> and chaired the Prince\u2019s Youth Business Trust in Essex. She was a Magistrate and Vice Chairman of the governors of New Hall School.  She remains Vice-President of the Essex Community Foundation, serves on Essex University Court, is an assessor for the Queen\u2019s Awards for Volunteers and is Vice-Chairman of the Lord Chancellor\u2019s Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Tolhurst lives in Danbury with her husband, Philip.  They have three grown-up children and seven grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Petre, 18th Baron of the Petre family, whose ancestral family home is at Ingatestone Hall, has been the Lord-Lieutenant of Essex for the last fifteen years.  He will stand down after turning 75 \u2013 the customary age of retirement for the Sovereign\u2019s representatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs Jennifer Tolhurst DL has been appointed as Lord-Lieutenant of Essex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}