Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office 14 April 1992 – 20 July 1994
Prime Minister
John Major
Preceded by
David Maclean
Succeeded by
Angela Browning
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 October 2022 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex
In office 1 May 1997 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by
Tim Renton
Succeeded by
Mims Davies
Member of Parliament for Crawley
In office 9 June 1983 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by
Peter Hordern (Horsham and Crawley)
Succeeded by
Laura Moffatt
Personal details
Born
Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames
(1948-02-12) 12 February 1948 (age 76) Croydon, Surrey, England
Political party
Conservative[a]
Spouses
Catherine Weatherall
(m. 1981; div. 1988)
Serena Smith
(m. 1993)
Children
3
Parent(s)
Christopher Soames Mary Churchill
Relatives
Winston Churchill (grandfather) Emma Soames (sister) Rupert Soames (brother)
Education
Eton College
Alma mater
Mons Officer Cadet School
Website
Official website
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch/service
British Army
Years of service
1967–1975
Rank
Second lieutenant
Unit
11th Hussars Royal Hussars
^Whip suspended from 3 September 2019 to 29 October 2019.
Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, Baron Soames of Fletching, PC (born 12 February 1948), is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Sussex from 1997 to 2019, having previously served as the MP for Crawley from 1983 to 1997.
Soames was Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 1994 to 1997 in the government of John Major. He had the whip removed on 3 September 2019, for voting against the government, before it was restored on 29 October. His main political interests are defence, international relations, rural affairs and industry. He is a grandson of former prime minister Winston Churchill.
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backers, with other supporters including David Lidington, David Gauke, NicholasSoames, Tobias Ellwood, Gillian Keegan and Victoria Prentis. Against expectations...
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alongside one to Sir Winston Churchill, which was accepted by his grandson NicholasSoames. Zeman said he regretted the highest Czech award having been awarded...
documentary". British Conservative Party MP and Churchill's Grandson NicholasSoames commented, Johnson's book was a "Good book, very readable, but not...
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for Mid Sussex Incumbent Assumed office 12 December 2019 Preceded by NicholasSoames Majority 18,197 (29.0%) Member of Parliament for Eastleigh In office...
out of the cathedral. To these unusual deeds by Queen Elizabeth II, NicholasSoames commented: "It is absolutely exceptional if not unique for the Queen...
public, Thomas invented a 'National Soames Day' on which hundreds of people made appointments to see the furniture. Soames subsequently decided to pay the...
the tail rotor; Geoffrey Oakden, father of crash victim Mark Oakden; NicholasSoames on 8 June 1996; Air Vice-Marshal Boz Robinson, station commander from...
office 10 May 2005 – 6 December 2005 Leader Michael Howard Preceded by NicholasSoames Succeeded by Liam Fox Shadow Foreign Secretary In office 18 September...
1992 general election, but lost out to the sitting Conservative MP NicholasSoames. For the following election she was again selected as the Labour candidate...
assert that they have had an affair because Soames has it in his mind already. This statement gives Soames the evidence he needs for divorce proceedings...
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