George Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford
George Richard Hodges Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey, 1st Baronet Nugent of Guildford, of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey (* June 6, 1907; † 16 March 1994) was a British politician of the Conservative Party, who was a Member of the House of Commons for sixteen years, and in 1966 as a Life peer because of the Life peerages Act 1958 was a member of the House of Lords.
Life
Officer, local politicians and farmers functionary
Nugent was the younger son of Colonel George Roubiliac Hodges Nugent and graduated after the Imperial Service College visit to Windsor military training at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich. Subsequently, he served 1926-1929 as an officer in the British Army and then worked as a farmer.
He began his political career in local policies and held 1944-1951 the Tories in the Council of the County of Surrey and was last 1951-1952 Deputy ( Alderman ) of this county. In the meantime, Nugent began his involvement in the National Farmers Federation National Farmers Union, the Executive Council he served 1945-1951. He was also from 1948 to 1951 and Vice Chairman of the Federation of Young Farmers organizations ( the National Federation of Young Farmers ).
Lower house MP and Junior Minister
In the general election of February 23, 1950 Nugent was finally first elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party as a delegate in the House of Commons and represented in this up to the general election on 31 March 1966 constituency Guildford.
After the electoral victory of the Tories in the general election of October 25, 1951 Nugent was appointed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ( Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ), and as such was until 1957 one of the closest collaborators of the former Minister Thomas Dugdale and 1954-1957 by Derick Heathcoat -Amory.
Following this, he was on 18 January 1957 by the new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Transport (Ministry of Transport ), and was in this capacity until October 22, 1959 closest staff of Transport Minister Harold Watkinson.
Head of the River Thames administration and the House of Lords member
After retiring from the government Nugent, who was knighted on 1 January 1960 as 1st Baronet Nugent of Guildford, of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey, was 1960 Chairman of the Managing Authority for the River Thames ( Thames Conservancy Board). During his tenure, the modernization of the navigation locks and river crossings of the Thames such as the Shiplake Lock, in 1961 the first hydraulically operated lock system was built, and in 1972 the reconstruction of the Sandford Lock began. The Office of the Superintendent of the Thames administration he held until the restructuring of the Thames Conservancy Board for Thames Water Authority due to the Water Act 1973 on 1 April 1974.
In addition to his work at the Thames administration Nugent, the 1962 Privy Councillor, was 1961-1964 and Chairman of the House Committee on nationalized industrial enterprises (House of Commons Select Committee for Nationalised Industries) and then from 1964 to 1977 and Chairman of the Research Institute for animal viruses, the Animal virus research Institute. Furthermore, since 1962, he became involved as Chairman of the Standing Conference on Regional Planning in London.
By Letters Patent of May 31, 1966 Nugent was raised due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as life peer with the title Baron Nugent of Guildford, of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey in the peerage, and was thus until his death almost 28 years the House of Lords as a member. Most recently, he was 1973-1978 and Chairman of the National Water Council ( National Water Council ).
His wife, Ruth Stafford, Lady Nugent of Guildford, with whom he was married in 1937, died in 2008.
Publications
- "More Eggs in the winter. " What Home Producers Can Do to Fill the Gap, 1950
- Agricultural Marketing, London 1951
- Report of the Committee on Roads London, London 1959
- Report of the Defence Lands Committee 1971-73: Explanatory Memorandum, HM Stationery Office, 1973