{{Short description|British politician (1932–2005)}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Belstead | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} | office = Paymaster General | prime_minister = John Major | term_start = 28 November 1990 | term_end = 11 April 1992 | predecessor = Richard Ryder | successor = John Cope | office1 = Minister of State for Northern Ireland | prime_minister1 = John Major | term_start1 = 28 November 1990 | term_end1 = 14 April 1992 | predecessor1 = John Cope | successor1 = Robert Atkins | office2 = Leader of the House of Lords<br />Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | prime_minister2 = Margaret Thatcher | term_start2 = 10 January 1988 | term_end2 = 28 November 1990 | predecessor2 = The Viscount Whitelaw<br /> (Leader of Lords)<br />John Wakeham<br /> (Lord Privy Seal) | successor2 = The Lord Waddington | office3 = Deputy Leader of the House of Lords | term_start3 = June 1983 | term_end3 = January 1988 | prime_minister3 = Margaret Thatcher | predecessor3 = The Earl Ferrers | successor3 = The Earl Ferrers | office4 = Minister of State for Environment | prime_minister4 = Margaret Thatcher | term_start4 = 13 June 1987 | term_end4 = 10 January 1988 | predecessor4 = William Waldegrave | successor4 = The Earl of Caithness | office5 = Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | prime_minister5 = Margaret Thatcher | term_start5 = 13 June 1983 | term_end5 = 13 June 1987 | predecessor5 = Alick Buchanan-Smith | successor5 = John Gummer | office6 = Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | prime_minister6 = Margaret Thatcher | term_start6 = 5 April 1982 | term_end6 = 13 June 1983 | predecessor6 = Richard Luce | successor6 = Richard Luce | office7 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs | prime_minister7 = Margaret Thatcher | term_start7 = 7 May 1979 | term_end7 = 5 April 1982 | predecessor7 = Shirley Summerskill | successor7 = The Lord Elton | office8 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | term_start8 = 5 June 1973 | term_end8 = 4 March 1974 | prime_minister8 = Edward Heath | predecessor8 = The Lord Windlesham ''(Minister of State)'' | successor8 = The Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge | office9 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science | term_start9 = 24 June 1970 | term_end9 = 5 June 1973 | prime_minister9 = Edward Heath | predecessor9 = Joan Lestor | successor9 = Timothy Raison | office10 = Member of the House of Lords | status10 = Lord Temporal | term_label10 = Hereditary peerage | term_start10 = 15 August 1958 | term_end10 = 11 November 1999 | predecessor10 = The 1st Baron Belstead | successor10 = Seat abolished | term_label11 = Life peerage | term_start11 = 17 November 1999 | term_end11 = 3 December 2005 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1932|9|30}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2005|12|3|1932|9|30}} | death_place = | party = Conservative | alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford | image = File:Lord Belstead.jpg }} '''John Julian Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead, Baron Ganzoni''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} (30 September 1932 – 3 December 2005) was a British Conservative politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Margaret Thatcher from 1988 to 1990.
==Background and education== Ganzoni was the only son of Sir John Ganzoni, a barrister and Conservative MP for Ipswich who was created Baron Belstead in 1938, and his wife Gwendolen Gertrude Turner, daughter of Arthur Turner, of Ipswich. He went to Eton before reading History at Christ Church, Oxford.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
==Political career== Belstead showed little interest in politics at first, and waited six years after succeeding to the peerage on his father's death in 1958 before making his maiden speech. In 1970, Edward Heath appointed him to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary to Margaret Thatcher at the Department of Education and Science; he was moved in the same rank to the Northern Ireland Office three years later.
When Margaret Thatcher led the Tories back to power in 1979, she sent him to the Home Office. He was then made Minister at the Foreign Office when Lord Carrington and his team resigned after the Falklands invasion. In 1980, he was interviewed by the BBC's Panorama current affairs programme about Britain's preparations for a nuclear attack.
He next moved to the Ministry of Fisheries and Food, and went back to the Education Department again before becoming Deputy Leader to William Whitelaw as Leader of the House of Lords. He succeeded Whitelaw in that post in 1988, taking the sinecure post of Lord Privy Seal at the same time.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=51198 |date=14 January 1988 |page=411}}</ref>
After losing his Cabinet seat, which he had gained when he became Lord Privy Seal, in 1990 he became Paymaster General and Northern Ireland Minister under John Major, retiring from the Government to become Chairman of the Parole Board in 1992.
In the 1983 New Year Honours, he was sworn of the Privy Council.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=49212 |date=30 December 1982 |page=1 |supp=y}}</ref> After the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, he was created a life peer<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=55676 |date=23 November 1999 |page=12465}}</ref> (an honour given to all former Leaders of the House of Lords) as '''Baron Ganzoni''', of Ipswich in the County of Suffolk on 17 November 1999.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24711 |date=19 November 1999 |page=2478 |city=e}}</ref> He also gave his name to the new "Belstead Centre" at Woodbridge School.
==Personal life== Lord Belstead never married. He died in December 2005, aged 73, when both the hereditary peerage and the baronetcy became extinct.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Great Bealings, Suffolk.
He was an active Freemason and president of the Board of General Purposes for the United Grand Lodge of England.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/conservatives-at-the-heart-of-freemasonry-1580256.html Conservatives at heart of freemasonry], ''The Independent''. Retrieved 29 May 2016.</ref> He was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk on 2 April 1979.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=47820 |date=19 April 1979 |page=5080}}</ref>
==Coat of arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image = |image size = |notes = Coat of arms of the Ganzoni family |coronet = A coronet of a Baron |crest =A Demi Lion Or supporting a Gentian Plant as in the Arms |escutcheon = Per fess Azure and Argent a Gentian Plant flowered and eradicated proper between in chief a Mullet and an Increscent both Or |supporters =On either side a Seahorse proper gorged with a Collar pendent therefrom a Portcullis chained Or |motto = Fidelitas Vincit (Fidelity overcomes) }}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Hansard-contribs | mr-john-ganzoni | John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead}} *[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/dec/06/guardianobituaries.obituaries Obituary], Guardian.co.uk. Accessed 8 January 2023. *[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/minutes/991123/ldminute.htm Announcement of his taking the oath under his new title at the House of Lords] House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 23 November 1999 *[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/minutes/051205/ldminute.htm Announcement of his death at the House of Lords] House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 5 December 2005
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