Anthony Hurd, Baron Hurd

Anthony Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Newbury in the Royal County of Berkshire Kt ( born May 2, No 1901; † February 12, 1966 ) was a British journalist and politician of the Conservative Party, the nineteen-year- long member of the House of Commons and was 1964 as a Life peer because of the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Journalist and farmer

Hurd, whose father Percy Hurd with a brief interruption also for 27 years Member of the House of Commons, was completed after the visit of Marlborough College to study at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, where he graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In 1924, he began his career as a journalist as agricultural editor of the magazine The Field, where he worked until 1937.

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

House of Commons Member of Parliament and the House of Lords member

After the Second World War hurdle was chosen as a candidate of the Conservative Party in the general election of July 5, 1945 as a deputy in the House of Commons and represented in this for nineteen years until his mandate resignation on August 31, 1964 the constituency of Newbury. During this time he was made a Knight Bachelor in 1959 and led since then the additional name "Sir".

Shortly before the resignation of his parliamentary mandate Hurd was raised by a Letters Patent of August 24, 1964 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Hurd of Newbury in the Royal County of Berkshire to the peerage and was therefore up to its death of a member of the House of Lords.

From closed on September 28, 1928 marriage to Stephanie Frances Corner three sons, including the eldest son Douglas Hurd, who was the House of Commons Member of Parliament and several times minister for 23 years and in 1997 as Baron Hurd of Westwell, of Westwell in the County of Oxfordshire emerged, also Member of the Upper House was. His son Nick Hurd since 2005 Member of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State since 2010 for charities, social enterprises and volunteering in the Cabinet Office of the Government of Prime Minister David Cameron.