Lord Michael Heseltine

Lord Heseltine was a Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001. He was a cabinet minister in various departments from 1979 and Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 1997. He is founder and chairman of the Haymarket Publishing Group, the largest privately owned publishing company in the UK. He has written books on Europe and, most recently, his political autobiography, Life in the Jungle. In 1998 he was invited
to become Chairman of the UK-China Forum. He also served as a Millennium Commissioner. Lord Heseltine is an enthusiastic gardener and is creating an arboretum to house his collection of over 3,500 different trees and shrubs.