Sir Hugo Laurence Joseph Brunner KCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 JP

Justice of the Peace

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 (b. 17 August 1935), was Lord Lieutenant

Lord Lieutenant

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 of Oxfordshire

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, England

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, between 1996 and 2008. He was succeeded by Tim Stevenson.

Hugo Brunner is the son of Sir Felix John Morgan Brunner, 3rd Bt

Baronet

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. (1897–1982), and Elizabeth Irving

Elizabeth Irving

Dorothea Elizabeth Irving OBE, JP was a British actress, the daughter of actors H. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird, and the grand-daughter of Victorian era stage star Henry Irving. Her older brother was the Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving...

, the grand-daughter of the Victorian era

Victorian era

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 actor-manager Henry Irving

Henry Irving

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He was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1988 and Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire

Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire

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 in 1996. He has been an enthusiastic supporter of the installation of blue plaque

Blue plaque

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s through his chairmanship of the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board

Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board

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, established in 1999 and administered by the Oxford Civic Society

Oxford Civic Society

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Brunner was awarded the honorary degree

Honorary degree

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 of Doctor of Laws by Oxford Brookes University

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 in 1999. His family home was Greys Court

Greys Court

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 in south Oxfordshire and he now lives in North

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 Oxford

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He was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

External links

• Oxford Brookes information
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p14972.htm#i149719