Douglas Hurd ![](/w/images/thumb/2/20/Wikipedia-icon.png/35px-Wikipedia-icon.png) ![Rdf-entity.png](/w/images/thumb/b/b8/Rdf-entity.png/20px-Rdf-entity.png) ![Rdf-icon.png](/w/images/thumb/4/4b/Rdf-icon.png/20px-Rdf-icon.png) |
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Born | Douglas Richard Hurd 1930-03-08 Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK |
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Nationality | British |
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Alma mater | Eton College, Trinity College (Cambridge) |
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Children | • 3 sons • 1 son and 1 daughter |
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Member of | Chatham House/Governors, Ditchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK, European Leadership Network, Königswinter/Speakers, Nobody's Friends |
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Party | Conservative |
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Relatives | • Anthony • Lord Hurd • Sir Percy Hurd |
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| In office |
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9 June 1983 - 1 May 1997 | Preceded by | Shirley SummerskillKenneth Baker, Tony Benn, Winston Churchill II, Gwyneth Dunwoody, Clement Freud, Stephen Hastings, Nicholas Lyell, Fred Mulley, John Nott, Merlyn Rees, William Rodgers, David Waddington |
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Succeeded by | Damian Green, Alan Howarth, Bob Laxton, Helen Liddell, Jenny TongeDavid Amess, Alan Clark, Charles Clarke, Yvette Cooper, Ed Davey, Louise Ellman, Lorna Fitzsimons, Mike Hancock, Melanie Johnson, Christopher Leslie, Julian Lewis, Peter Luff, Nicholas Lyell, Fiona Mactaggart, Gillian Merron, Chris Pond, Nicholas Soames, Dave Watts, Shaun Woodward, Phil Woolas |
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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.[1]
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