John Nott
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The Right Honourable Sir John Nott KCB |
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| Secretary of State for Defence | |
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In office 5 January 1981 – 6 January 1983 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Francis Pym |
| Succeeded by | Michael Heseltine |
| Secretary of State for Trade | |
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In office 4 May 1979 – 5 January 1981 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | John Smith |
| Succeeded by | John Biffen |
| Member of Parliament for St Ives |
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In office 31 March 1966 – 9 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Greville Howard |
| Succeeded by | David Harris |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 February 1932 Bideford, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
Bradfield College Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch |
 British Army• 2nd Gurkha Rifles |
| Years of service | 1952–1956 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
Sir John William Frederic Nott KCB (born 1 February 1932) is a former British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He featured heavily in the public eye as Secretary of State for Defence during the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the subsequent Falklands War. In 2016, he claimed David Cameron had poisoned the EU referendum debate.
Born in Bideford, Devon, the son of Richard Nott and Phyllis (née Francis), Nott was educated at Bradfield College and was commissioned as a regular officer in the 2nd Gurkha Rifles (1952–1956). He served in the Malayan emergency after a period of service with the Royal Scots. He left to study law and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1959. At Cambridge he met his future wife Miloska, a Slovene. Lady Nott was awarded an OBE in 2012 for her humanitarian work. They have two sons and a daughter.
Nott was Member of Parliament for St Ives in Cornwall from 1966 to 1983. He was the last person to commence his parliamentary career under the nearly obsolete National Liberal label. The National Liberals were formally absorbed by the Conservatives in 1968, after which Nott sat as a Conservative MP.
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