Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat
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Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat (born 15 October 1937) is a British Conservative politician, businessman, company director and chairman, and journalist/author. Family lineage of Polish, Austrian and Anglo-Irish extraction. He was raised a Roman Catholic. Tugendhat's father was born in Vienna but came to United Kingdom after World War I. He subsequently traced his father's forebears to the Polish town of Bielsko, Silesia which until 1918 had been called Bielitz when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He found the graves of 25 Tugendhats in the Jewish Cemetery which had closed in 1939. He helped to fund its restoration.
He sat as M.P. for London and Westminster from 1970, before being appointed as a member of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981. Tugendhat was the second choice for the appointment after John Davies was vetoed by the Labour government.
In due course he became Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority until he was succeeded by Christopher Chataway. He later went on to become the chairman of Abbey National and Chairman of the European Advisory Board of Lehman Brothers .
He was created a life peer as Baron Tugendhat, of Widdington in the County of Essex in 1993, and is the Chancellor of the University of Bath in Bath, England.
He is Chairman of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, the UK's first Academic Health Science Centre.
[edit] Publications
- Oil: The Biggest Business (1975) Co-author with Adrian Hamilton
- Roy Jenkins A Retrospective (2004) Contributor, wrote Chapter 12.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John Smith |
Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster 1970–1974 |
Succeeded by (constituency renamed) |
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Member of Parliament for the City of London and Westminster South 1974–1977 |
Succeeded by Peter Brooke |
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| Preceded by Sir Denys Henderson |
Chancellor of the University of Bath 1998– |
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