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{{person | {{person | ||
− | | | + | |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hurd |
+ | |nndb=http://www.nndb.com/people/860/000164368/ | ||
+ | |constitutes=deep state operative, politician | ||
+ | |alma_mater=Eton College (Cambridge) University/Trinity College | ||
+ | |birth_date=1930-03-08 | ||
+ | |description=UK Deep state operative, Eton, Trinity College, Chatham House/President | ||
+ | |birth_name=Douglas Richard Hurd | ||
+ | |birth_place=Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK | ||
+ | |image=Douglas Hurd.jpg | ||
+ | |political_parties=Conservative | ||
+ | |children=Thomas Hurd, Nick Hurd, Alexander Hurd, 1 other son, 1 daughter | ||
+ | |relatives=Anthony, Lord Hurd, Sir Percy Hurd | ||
+ | |nationality=British | ||
+ | |powerbase=http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Douglas_Hurd | ||
+ | |sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Douglas_Hurd | ||
+ | |wikiquote=http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Hurd | ||
+ | |employment={{job | ||
+ | |title=Chatham House/President | ||
+ | |start= | ||
+ | |end= | ||
+ | |description=Succeeded by [[John Major]] | ||
+ | }}{{job | ||
+ | |title=Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | ||
+ | |start=26 October 1989 | ||
+ | |end=5 July 1995 | ||
+ | }}{{job | ||
+ | |title=Home Secretary | ||
+ | |start=2 September 1985 | ||
+ | |end=26 October 1989 | ||
+ | }}{{job | ||
+ | |title=Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | ||
+ | |start=27 September 1984 | ||
+ | |end=2 September 1985 | ||
+ | }}{{job | ||
+ | |title=Minister for Europe | ||
+ | |start=4 May 1979 | ||
+ | |end=9 June 1983 | ||
+ | }}{{job | ||
+ | |title=Member of Parliament for Witney | ||
+ | |start=9 June 1983 | ||
+ | |end=1 May 1997 | ||
+ | }}{{job | ||
+ | |title=Member of Parliament for Mid Oxfordshire | ||
+ | |start=28 February 1974 | ||
+ | |end=9 June 1983 | ||
}} | }} | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{SMWQ | ||
+ | |text=[[NATO]] is one of the principal props which have allowed [[Britain]] to punch above its weight in the world. | ||
+ | |subjects=NATO | ||
+ | |date=1993 | ||
+ | |source_name=BBC | ||
+ | |source_URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk_politics/2001/open_politics/foreign_policy/uks_world_role.stm | ||
+ | |source_details=At [[Chatham House]] | ||
+ | }}'''Douglas Hurd''' | ||
==Family tragedy== | ==Family tragedy== | ||
[[Catherine Hurd]], 46, daughter-in-law of Douglas, "climbed a ladder, went through a hatch and stepped off the roof of the four-storey house in the fashionable Upper East Side of the city" of New York on May 21 2011. The judge returned an open verdict.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9677717/Mystery-surrounds-rooftop-death-of-Douglas-Hurds-daughter-in-law.html</ref> | [[Catherine Hurd]], 46, daughter-in-law of Douglas, "climbed a ladder, went through a hatch and stepped off the roof of the four-storey house in the fashionable Upper East Side of the city" of New York on May 21 2011. The judge returned an open verdict.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9677717/Mystery-surrounds-rooftop-death-of-Douglas-Hurds-daughter-in-law.html</ref> | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:10, 10 January 2025
“NATO is one of the principal props which have allowed Britain to punch above its weight in the world.”
Douglas Hurd (1993) [1]
Douglas Hurd
Family tragedy
Catherine Hurd, 46, daughter-in-law of Douglas, "climbed a ladder, went through a hatch and stepped off the roof of the four-storey house in the fashionable Upper East Side of the city" of New York on May 21 2011. The judge returned an open verdict.[2]
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bilderberg/1980 | 18 April 1980 | 20 April 1980 | Germany Aachen | The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror |
Bilderberg/1981 | 15 May 1981 | 17 May 1981 | Switzerland Palace Hotel Bürgenstock | The 29th Bilderberg |
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