Nicholas Guy Halsey TD

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Doctor of Letters

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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

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 (born 14 June 1948) is the heir to the Halsey Baronetcy

Halsey Baronets

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Halsey is the son of Lieutenant Colonel

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 Guy Marsden Halsey, TD

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 (1908–1990), the second son of the Reverend Frederick Halsey and Audrey Katherine, née

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 Marsden.

A member of the prominent Halsey family of Hertfordshire

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, Halsey was educated at Eton

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 and the Royal Agricultural College

Royal Agricultural College

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 at Cirencester

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. He served as a Major

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 in the Royal Green Jackets

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, and is a Fellow

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 of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

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. He was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire

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 in 1995. He married Viola Georgina Juliet Thorne on 7 August 1976. Their son is Guy Francis Johnston Halsey, born in 1981.

Halsey is the Lord of the Manor

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 for Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead

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