Nicholas Budgen
| Nicholas Budgen | |
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Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West |
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In office 1 March 1974 – 6 June 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Enoch Powell |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Jones |
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3 November 1937 Newport, Shropshire, United Kingdom |
| Died | 26 October 1998 (aged 60) |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi, Cambridge |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Nicholas William Budgen (3 November 1937 – 26 October 1998), often called Nick Budgen, was a British Conservative Party politician.
Named after St. Nicholas Church in Newport, Shropshire of which his grandfather was priest, Budgen was baptised at Lichfield Cathedral by his grandfather, who had also baptised Enoch Powell, as well as marrying his parents. Thirty-seven years later he would succeed Powell as the Conservative member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West.
Nicholas Budgen was educated at St Edward's School in Oxford and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Budgen was raised by his grandfather after his father had been killed during the Second World War, one of his uncles having been killed during the First World War and another during the second. During his National Service he rose to the rank of Lieutenant in the North Staffordshire Regiment. In 1959 he transferred to the Staffordshire Yeomanry. He became a barrister at Gray's Inn in 1962.
In the 1970 general election he stood for the Conservatives in Birmingham, Small Heath, but failed to gain election. In 1974, when the Conservative MP Enoch Powell left the party and resigned from his seat over their policy on the EEC, only six weeks before the 1974 general election, Budgen was selected to stand for the Conservatives in Powell's old seat: Wolverhampton South West.
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