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Streatham-born MP Nicholas Budgen

2/11/2020

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On This Day 3 November 1937 Nicholas Budgen MP was born in Streatham

Nicholas William Budgen (1937–1998), barrister and politician, was born on 3 November 1937 at 50 Palace Road, Streatham, London, the son of George Nicholas Budgen (d. 1942), businessman, and his wife, Mary Helen, née Bather.

​ He was baptized into the Church of England by the grandfather of Enoch Powell, a politician who much later significantly influenced his life. His father, a captain in the army, was killed at Tobruk.
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In 1974, when the Conservative MP Enoch Powell left the party and resigned from his seatover their policy on the EEC, only six weeks before the 1974 general election, Budgen was selected to stand for the Conservatives in Powell's old seat: Wolverhampton South West.
Patrick Cosgrave

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Frank Webster
16/2/2021 02:27:47 pm

Nicholas Budgen was baptised by his grandfather, Canon Budgen, who was Dean of Lichfield and formerly vicar at Newport in Shropshire. It was Canon Budgen who baptised Enoch Powell (a point made by Nicholas Budgen in his maiden speech in 1974).

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Mark Bery
16/2/2021 03:24:38 pm

Thanks Frank- fascinating. I will check the source and try to get to Patrick Cosgrove

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