(1932-03-11)11 March 1932 Hampstead, London, England
Died
3 April 2023(2023-04-03) (aged 91) Eastbourne, England
Political party
Conservative
Spouses
Vanessa Salmon
(m. 1955; div. 1980)
Thérèse Maclear
(m. 1980; div. 2012)
Children
6, including Dominic and Nigella
Education
Westminster School
Alma mater
Christ Church, Oxford
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch/service
Royal Navy
Years of service
1954–1956
Rank
Lieutenant commander
Commands
HMS Gay Charger
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Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, PC (11 March 1932 – 3 April 2023) was a British politician and journalist. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament for Blaby from 1974 to 1992, and served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet from 1981 to 1989. Prior to entering the Cabinet, he served as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 1979 until his promotion to Secretary of State for Energy. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in June 1983 and served until his resignation in October 1989. In both Cabinet posts, Lawson was a key proponent of Thatcher's policies of privatisation of several key industries.[1]
Lawson was a backbencher from 1989 until he retired in 1992 and sat in the House of Lords from 1992 to his further retirement in 2022.[2] He remained active in politics as the president of Conservatives for Britain, a campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, and was a prominent critic of the EU. He also served as the chairman of the think tank The Global Warming Policy Foundation and was an active supporter of Vote Leave.
Lawson was the father of six children, including Nigella Lawson, a food writer and celebrity cook, Dominic Lawson, a journalist, and Tom Lawson, headmaster of Eastbourne College.
^Langdon, Julia (4 April 2023). "Nigel Lawson obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
^"Retirement of One Member (Retirement List)". House of Lords Business. UK Parliament. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
NigelLawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, PC (11 March 1932 – 3 April 2023) was a British politician and journalist. A member of the Conservative Party, he...
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and Elizabeth Royal Page Television film 2004 The Alan Clark Diaries NigelLawson Episode: "Defence of the Realm" 2004–2005 The Smoking Room Barry Main...
on the panel. 11 December 2014: Edition in which Russell Brand described Nigel Farage as a "pound shop Enoch Powell", a reference to the politician who...
seen as one of them, nor was he invited to their private meetings. Both NigelLawson and Cecil Parkinson agreed in their memoirs (1992) that he accepted in...
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