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Mike Kapur

lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ54157342 ↗
Source-derived summary

Arvind Michael Kapur, (born 12 December 1962) is the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire. He succeeded Jennifer Gretton, Baroness Gretton in the role on 14 June 2018.

Career

Kapur is the Founder and Director of Signum Corporate Communications, a Leicestershire Telecommunications Provider. Mike Kapur was appointed a non-executive director at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1995 and following its merger in 2000 with two other large hospitals, he was retained as Deputy Chairman of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He is currently Chairman of the National Space Centre in Leicester.

Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire

Kapur became Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire on 14 June 2018, succeeding Jennifer Gretton, Baroness Gretton.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 2018, 1995, 2000—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1962-12-12, 1962—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Mike, Kapur and lord can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mike Kapur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.