Patrick Holcroft


Lt. Col. Patrick Roy Holcroft is an English retired soldier and banker who is the present Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire, that is the British monarch's personal representative in the county.

Career

He was educated at Downside School, the University of Nottingham, and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served 19 years in the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, before pursuing a career in the City of London with the UK merchant banking group Robert Fleming & Co. in 1988.
Holcroft remained with the bank as CEO of its Lloyds re-insurance broking business and a director of the investment management business until the bank was acquired in 2000 by Chase Manhattan Bank. Following a buyout, he became CEO of the renamed RFIB group. He remained CEO of the group until 2009, becoming a non executive director until 2012. He was also a non executive director of the Griffin Insurance Association until 2012 and a non executive director of Thomas Miller Holdings until 2016.
Holcroft was born and brought up in Worcestershire, became a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire in 2009 and was appointed to his present position on 28 December 2012.. He was appointed an Officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 New Year Honours., LVO in the New Year’s Honours List 2013 and CStJ in 2018.
He is a trustee or adviser to The Grenadier Guards, Nuffield Trust for the Forces of the Crown; the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; The Hedley Foundation, which supports young people, the disabled and the terminally ill; and until 2014 the Lloyd's Patriotic Fund. He is also President or Patron of a number of Worcestershire based charities, including New College Worcester, Worcestershire Ambassadors, The Worcestershire Community Foundation, Worcestershire and Dudley Historic Churches; and he is a member of the Council of Worcestershire Cathedral.

Personal life

He lives near Tenbury Wells and is married to former Vanity Fair publisher Annie Roberts Holcroft in 1982. They have three sons: former soldier Oliver James, actor Edward Patrick and Thomas William.