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

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Bonsor was Member of Parliament

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 for Nantwich

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 from 1979 to 1983, then for Upminster

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 from 1983 until he lost the seat to Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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's Keith Darvill

Keith Darvill

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 in 1997. He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

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 from 1995 to 1997 and practised as a barrister

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 in London.

He lives at Liscombe Park near Soulbury

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 in Buckinghamshire

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 and is a Deputy Lieutenant

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 of Buckinghamshire

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.

He has pledged support, by appearing together in a public meeting, to Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage

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 MEP in his 2010 UK general election campaign for the Buckingham constituency, standing against the speaker of the House (standing for re-election), John Bercow

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.

Family

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

Baron Killearn

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. They have had five children, including elder son and heir Alexander Cosmo Walrond Bonsor (b. 1976) and twin daughters.