George Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford

George Richard Hodges Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford PC JP (6 June 1907 – 16 March 1994), known as Sir Richard Nugent, 1st Baronet between 1960 and 1966, was a British Conservative politician.

Nugent was the son of Colonel George Roubiliac Hodges Nugent and his wife Violet Stella, daughter of Henry Theopphilus Sheppard. He was educated at the Imperial Service College and went then to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

In 1926, Nugent was commissioned into the Royal Artillery, leaving it after three years. He joined the County Council for Surrey in 1944 and became an alderman in 1951, representing the county later as a Justice of the Peace. Nugent entered the British House of Commons in 1950, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Guildford until 1966. He became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in 1951, an office he held until 1957. Subsequently he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport until October 1959. Nugent was created a Baronet, of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey, on 27 January 1960 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1962. He received a life peerage with the title Baron Nugent of Guildford, of Dunsfold in the County of Surrey on 31 May 1966.

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