Anthony Hurd, Baron Hurd

Anthony Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd Kt ( May 2, 1901 , † February 12, 1966 ) was a British journalist and Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for nineteen years and who was a Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act in 1964 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Journalist and farmer

Hurd, whose father Percy Hurd with a short interruption also for 27 years member of the House of Commons was completed after visiting the Marlborough College to study at Pembroke College of University of Cambridge , which he in 1922 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed . In 1924 he began his professional activity as a journalist as an agricultural editor at The Field magazine and worked there until 1937.

After he had completed further studies at Pembroke College in 1926 with a Master of Arts (MA), he also became a farmer in Berkshire in 1926 and was later temporarily Vice President of the Royal Agricultural Society . In addition, Hurd, who was also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, was an agricultural correspondent for The Times newspaper between 1932 and 1958 .

Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords

After the end of World War II , Hurde was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the general election of July 5, 1945 as a member of the House of Commons and represented Newbury constituency for nineteen years until he resigned on August 31, 1964 . During this time he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1959 and has since had the addition of "Sir".

Shortly before the resignation of his parliamentary mandate, Hurd was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated August 24, 1964 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Hurd , of Newbury in the Royal County of Berkshire, and was thus up to member of the House of Lords on his death.

From the closed on 28 September 1928 marriage to Stephanie Frances Corner three sons were born, including the eldest son Douglas Hurd , who was 23 years lower house deputy and minister several times and in 1997 as Baron Hurd of Westwell, of Westwell in the County of Oxfordshire also Became a member of the House of Lords. His son Nick Hurd is since 2005 member of the House of Commons since 2010 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for charities, social enterprises and voluntary work in the Cabinet Office of the Government of Prime Minister David Cameron .

Web links

• Anthony Hurd at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Anthony Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.