Douglas Hurd
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Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, (born 8 March 1930) is a British Conservative politician who served in Margaret Thatcher and John Major's governments from 1979 to 1995. Edward Heath, Hurd, a career diplomat and Private Secretary, first appeared in Parliament in February 1974 as an MP for the Mid Oxfordshire constituency (Witney, 1983).
His first cabinet post was Minister for Europe from 1979 to 1983 (being the office's inaugural holder), and he has served in a variety of Cabinet positions from 1984 to 1995, including Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1985–95).
In 1990, Hurd was elected to the House of Lords and was one of the Conservative Party's most senior statesmen.
He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group.
In 2016, he resigned from the Lords.
Early life
Hurd was born in 1930 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where he lived. Both his father, Anthony Hurd (later Lord Hurd) and grandfather Sir Percy Hurd were members of Parliament. Douglas received the Newcastle Scholarship in 1947 while attending Twyford School and Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar and won the Newcastle Scholarship. He was also the head of class (head boy).
Hurd served National Service, which he did not particularly like at a time when the Berlin Blockade was a Third World War. He began in July 1948 with a compulsory period in the Royal Regiment of Artillery's ranks, as well as young men of all socioeconomic statuses. He later reported that living conditions in those days were no surprise, that the petty dishonesty he saw in the barrack room, as well as the high incidence of timelessness made him suspicious in later years of constituent calls for a revival of National Service. He was chosen for officer education and attended Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, from November 1948, and was posted as a second lieutenant in the 5th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (as it was then known) at the start of March 1949. In September 1949, he was discharged from the Army to take up his Cambridge University position. He served as a reserve officer for a few weeks each summer until 1952.
In the fall of 1949, Hurd went to Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridge. In his preliminary examinations in summer 1950, he came in second (II:1). He was invited by an admiral to be recruited to British Intelligence in March 1951. He was nominated for a jury but later remarked that he did not want a career in which he would have to pursue in secrecy. Julian Hurd's brother, who was on the officer training course at Aldershot at the time, committed suicide in June 1951. Hurd was president of the Cambridge University Conservative Association for Michaelmas in his third year (autumn) in 1951. The Second French Republic was his special interest for research. He earned his first-class degree (BA) in 1952.
Hurd joined the Diplomatic Service in 1952. Before leaving the service in 1966 to enter politics as a member of the Conservative Party, he was sent to China, the United States, and Italy.
Personal life
Hurd has married twice. Tatiana, his first wife, and their union produced three children in 1960. In 1976, the couple married in 1976, but in 1982, they divorced. "Really, politics don't mix with marriage," Tatiana Hurd cited her husband's work as the reason for their split. Hurd married Judy Smart, his former parliamentary secretary who was 19 years old, in 1982. They had two children, a boy, and a girl. Judy Hurd died of leukaemia in an Oxford hospital on November 22, 2008. She was 58.
Nick Hurd, Hurd's eldest son, was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Ruislip Northwood and Pinner from May 2005 to December 2019. He was elected Minister of Civil Society in 2010 and married Lady Clare Kerr, the Marquess of Lothian's daughter.
Thomas Hurd's second son, Thomas Hurd, joined the Diplomatic Service. His name appeared on a list of suspected MI6 operators that was spread on the internet, as did Douglas himself, who was reportedly the employer of disgruntled former SIS (MI6) or Security Service (MI5) workers. Hon Thomas was named OBE in 2006 and married with five children. Catherine, a husband and mother of Sian, died on May 21, 2011 after falling from the roof of the building where they lived on East 84th Street in New York City.
Hurd founded the charity Crime Concern in 1988. Crime Concern sought to reduce crime, anti-social conduct, and fear of crime by working with young people, their families, and adult offenders, as well as adult offenders, as well as adults providing opportunities through education and employment. Catch22 was created in 2008 by a young people's charity Rainer. Hurd is fluent in Mandarin, French, and Italian. He is a supporter of the pro EU European Movement UK.