{"id":82343,"date":"2017-07-07T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T11:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=edae8f274f4d821d1791d19b5310ec17"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T11:25:38","slug":"press-release-lord-lieutenant-of-merseyside-mark-blundell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82343","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside: Mark Blundell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Queen has been pleased to appoint Mr Mark Blundell DL as Her Majesty\u2019s Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside when Dame Lorna Muirhead DCVO DBE retires on 13 September 2017.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"biographical-notes\">Biographical notes<\/h4>\n<p>Mark Blundell is a landowner and former solicitor who has established a residential centre for children of all backgrounds on his family estate at Crosby Hall.  He has given much time to Merseyside, having served as President and Pro-Chancellor of Liverpool University, on the Heritage Lottery Fund for the North West, as chair of Merseyside Building Preservation Trust (MBPT), on the Council of Tate Liverpool, and as a trustee of Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services.<\/p>\n<p>He is at present a governor of the Royal Northern College of Music, a trustee of MBPT and of the Heritage Trust for the North West, chair of Crosby Hall Educational Trust, and chair of Liverpool University Pension Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Blundell lives in the Borough of Sefton with his wife Suzanne, a psychotherapist.  They have two daughters and five grandchildren, all of whom live nearby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Mark Blundell DL is appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside.<\/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\/82343"}],"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=82343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}