Nicholas Bonsor

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

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 for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1995 to 1997 and practises as a barrister in London.

He lives in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire and is a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.

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Sir Nicholas is the elder son of the late Sir Bryan Bonsor (1916-1997) 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 issue, five children, including an elder son and heir Alexander Cosmo Walrond Bonsor (b. 1976) and younger twin daughters.


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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Cockroft
Member of Parliament for Nantwich
19791983
Succeeded by
constituency abolished
Preceded by
John Loveridge
Member of Parliament for Upminster
19831997
Succeeded by
Keith Darvill
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Bryan Cosmo Bonsor
Baronet
(of Kingswood)
1977–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent

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  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page