George Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford

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George Richard Hodges Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford PC JP ( June 6, 1907 - March 16, 1994 in Dunsfold , Surrey ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for sixteen years and was named Life in 1966 Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Officer, local politician and peasant functionary

Nugent was the younger son of Colonel George Roubiliac Hodges Nugent and completed military training at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich after attending the Imperial Service College in Windsor . He then served as an officer in the British Army between 1926 and 1929 and then worked as a farmer .

He began his political career in local politics and represented initially from 1944 to 1951, the conservative Tories in the Council of the County of Surrey , and was last 1951-1952 Councilor ( Alderman ) that county. In the meantime, Nugent began his involvement in the British farmers' association, the National Farmers Union , of which he was a member of the executive council between 1945 and 1951. At the same time he was from 1948 to 1951 also deputy chairman of the umbrella organization of young farmers' organizations ( National Federation of Young Farmers ).

Member of the House of Commons and Junior Minister

In the general election of February 23, 1950 , Nugent was finally elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented in this until the general election on March 31, 1966 the constituency of Guildford .

After the conservative Tories won the general election of October 25, 1951 , Nugent was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by Prime Minister Winston Churchill , and as such was one of the until 1957 closest collaborator to then Minister Thomas Dugdale and between 1954 and 1957 of Derick Heathcoat-Amory .

Subsequently, on January 18, 1957, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Transport ( Ministry of Transport ) by the new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and was one of the closest staff of Transport Minister Harold Watkinson until October 22, 1959 .

Head of the Thames Administration and Member of the House of Lords

After retiring from the government Nugent was the January 1, 1960, the hereditary title Baronet was, of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey, loaned, 1960 Chairman of the Managing Authority for the Thames ( Thames Conservancy ). During his tenure, the modernization of the ship locks and river crossings of the Thames began, such as the Shiplake Lock , where the first hydraulically operated lock system was built in 1961, and the renovation of the Sandford Lock in 1972 . He held the position of head of the Thames Administration until the restructuring of the Thames Conservancy to the Thames Water Authority on April 1, 1974 on the basis of the Water Act 1973 .

In addition to his work in the Thames Administration, Nugent, who became Privy Councilor in 1962 , was also chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee for Nationalized Industries between 1961 and 1964 and then chairman of the Animal Virus Research Institute from 1964 to 1977 , the Animal Virus Research Institute . He has also been active as chairman of the Standing Conference on Regional Planning in London since 1962.

By a letters patent dated May 31, 1966, Nugent was raised to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Nugent of Guildford , of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey, and thus belonged to the nobility for almost 28 years until his death long as a member of the House of Lords. Most recently he was also chairman of the National Water Council between 1973 and 1978 .

His wife Ruth Stafford, Lady Nugent of Guildford, to whom he had been married since 1937, died in 2008.

Publications

  • "More Eggs in Winter." What Home Producers Can Do to Fill the Gap , 1950
  • Agricultural Marketing , London 1951
  • Report of the Committee on London Roads , London 1959
  • Report of the Defense Lands Committee, 1971-73: Explanatory Memorandum , HM Stationery Office, 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41909, HMSO, London, January 1, 1960, p. 1 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43981, HMSO, London, May 19, 1966, p. 5785 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ Lady Nugent of Guildford, 96, widow of life peer
personal data
SURNAME Nugent, George, Baron Nugent of Guildford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nugent, George Richard Hodges, Baron Nugent of Guildford (full name); Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1907
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1994
Place of death Dunsfold , Surrey