Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (born 8 March 1930), is a senior British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995. Viewed as one of the Conservative Party's senior elder statesmen, he is a patron of the Tory Reform Group, and remains an active figure in public life.
Douglas Hurd was born in Marlborough, Wiltshire, Engla...
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Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (born 8 March 1930), is a senior British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995. Viewed as one of the Conservative Party's senior elder statesmen, he is a patron of the Tory Reform Group, and remains an active figure in public life.
Douglas Hurd was born in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in 1930. His father Anthony Hurd, Baron Hurd and grandfather Sir Percy Hurd had both been Members of Parliament. Hurd attended Twyford School, Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. In 1952 he joined the Diplomatic Service, during which time he was posted to China, the United States and Italy, leaving the service in 1966 to enter politics as a member of the Conservative Party.
He became secretary to the then Conservative leader Edward Heath, and was first elected to Parliament in...
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