Terence Mordaunt

Terence Charles Mordaunt (born 22 May 1947) is a British entrepreneur, chairman and co-owner of The Bristol Port Company.

He is also chairman of Pendennis Shipyard, founder of The Mordaunt Foundation, chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and trustee of The Outward Bound Trust.

Early life and education Terence Mordaunt was educated at Wells Cathedral School in Somerset, England, which he attended between 1958 and 1965.

He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol in 2000.

Career

Early career Mordaunt started his career as a navigating apprentice in the Merchant Navy. He obtained his master's ticket in 1974.

Other activity Mordaunt is chairman of Pendennis Shipyard, a Falmouth-based company that builds and refits luxury yachts, which had a turnover of £52m in 2017.

In 2019, Terence Mordaunt officially handed over a collection of letters written by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the SS Great Britain Trust when they were discovered at Bristol Port.

In 2016, Mordaunt founded The Mordaunt Foundation, which provides grants to a number of regional, national and international organisations.

Political activity Terence Mordaunt is a patron of Conservative Way Forward, a British Thatcherite think tank.

In April 2017, Mordaunt joined the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank which promotes climate change denial, succeeding Nigel Lawson as chairman in 2019. Mordaunt told OpenDemocracy in 2019: "No one has proved yet that carbon dioxide is the culprit [of climate change]. It may not be. If you ask me should we just put carbon dioxide in the air, I would say 'no'. And that is the stance of the Global Warming Policy Foundation." Mordaunt was listed as the 13th biggest donor to the pro-Brexit campaign.

In 2022, Penny Mordaunt's prime ministerial campaign stated that Terence Mordaunt is not a relative.

Since 22nd June 2023, Terence's company First Corporate Consultants Limited has given £100,000 to the Reform UK party.