Nicholas Bonsor

The Right Honourable
Sir Nicholas Bonsor
Bt DL
The Right Honourable Sir Nicholas Bonsor Bt DL
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
	In office; 5 July 1995 – 5 May 1997
Preceded by	Douglas Hogg
Succeeded by	Derek Fatchett
Member of Parliament for Upminster
	In office; 9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997
Preceded by	John Loveridge
Succeeded by	Keith Darvill
Member of Parliament for Nantwich
	In office; 3 May 1979 – 9 June 1983
Preceded by	John Cockroft
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	9 December 1942 (age 81)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Residence(s)	Soulbury, Buckinghamshire
Alma mater	Eton College, Keble College, Oxford

Sir Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor, 4th Baronet, DL (born 9 December 1942) is a British Conservative politician.

Early life

He was educated at Eton College and Keble College, Oxford.

Political career

Having unsuccessfully fought Newcastle-under-Lyme in both 1974 elections, Bonsor was Member of Parliament for Nantwich from 1979 to 1983, then for Upminster from 1983 until he lost the seat to Labour's Keith Darvill in 1997. He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1997 and practised as a barrister in London.

Post-Parliamentary career

He lives at Liscombe Park near Soulbury in Buckinghamshire and is a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.

He pledged support, by appearing together in a public meeting, to Nigel Farage MEP in his 2010 UK general election campaign for the Buckingham constituency, standing against the speaker of the House (standing for re-election), John Bercow.

He is a Vice-President of the Standing Council of the Baronetage.^[1]

Family

Sir Nicholas is the elder son of the late Sir Bryan Bonsor (1916–1977) and his wife Elizabeth Hambro (1920–1995). In 1969, he married Hon. Nadine Marisa Lampson, now the Hon. Lady Bonsor, a daughter of Graham Curtis Lampson, 2nd Baron Killearn. They have had five children, including elder son and heir Alexander Cosmo Walrond Bonsor (b. 1976) and twin daughters.

Notes

^ "Standing Council of the Baronetage".

References

Times Guide to the House of Commons, Times Newspapers Limited, 1997
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ^{[page needed]}

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Nicholas Bonsor

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Cockroft	Member of Parliament for Nantwich 1979–1983	Constituency abolished
Preceded by John Loveridge	Member of Parliament for Upminster 1983–1997	Succeeded by Keith Darvill
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Bryan Cosmo Bonsor	Baronet (of Kingswood) 1977–present	Incumbent

This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom born in the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article about a member of Parliament representing an English constituency is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "Standing Council of the Baronetage".

[1]