Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat

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Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Christopher Samuel Tugendhat

(1937-02-23) 23 February 1937 (age 87)
Life Peer
(1993)

Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat (born 23 February 1937),[1] is a British Conservative Party politician, businessman, journalist and author.

A

Life Peer.[2]

Family background

Tugendhat was born at Marylebone, Middlesex. His father, Dr Georg Tugendhat (1898–1973), who was born at

doctorate at the London School of Economics,[3]
marrying Marie Littledale in 1934.

Dr Georg Tugendhat traced his paternal

Catholicism.[5][6]

Career

Tugendhat was educated at

Cities of London and Westminster, remaining in the House of Commons until 1977, when he resigned after being appointed a Member of the European Commission. He was first appointed to the EC by a Labour Government over the head of the nominee of the Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, but four years later, as Prime Minister, Thatcher reappointed him, and he served as Vice-President of the European Commission
from 1981 until 1985.

On 3 December 1980, when leaving his home in

Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt.[9]

Following his role at the European Commission, Tugendhat was Chairman of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (

Life Peer on the nomination of Prime Minister John Major
.

Lord Tugendhat later went on to become the Chairman of

Eurotunnel
, among other companies.

Other work

Tugendhat is a member of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) advisory board, an independent financial think tank which serves as a neutral, non-lobbying platform for exchanges among official institutions and private sector counter-parties worldwide.[10]

Personal life

He married Julia Lissant Dobson;[11] they have two sons, James (born 1971) and Angus (born 1974).[12]

His younger brother,

MP for Tonbridge and Malling since May 2015
.

Honours

County of Essex.[14]

In 1998 he became the

academic health science centre
, from 2007 until December 2011.

Coat of arms of Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat
Crest
A cock reguardant Azure beaked and legged Argent combed and wattled Gules in the beak a chain of twelve benzene rings conjoined Or.
Escutcheon
Per bend sinister indented acute of six points downwards the chief bendy en pointe Azure and Gules thre base bendy en pointe Sable and Or the whole parted and separated Argent.[17]
Supporters
On either side a bear statant erect reguardant Sable murally crowned Or.

See also

Publications

  • Oil: The Biggest Business (1968) London. Eyre and Spottiswoode
  • Multinationals (1971) London. Eyre and Spottiswoode
  • Making Sense of Europe (1986) London. Viking
  • Options for British Foreign Policy in the 1990s (Chatham House Papers) by Christopher Tugendhat and William Wallace (Nov 1988)
  • Roy Jenkins, a Retrospective (2004); contributor, wrote Chapter 12.
  • A History of Britain through Books 1900-1964 (2019) London. Whitefox
  • The Worm in the Apple (2022) London. Haus Publishing.

References

  1. ^ "Mr Christopher Tugendhat". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  2. ^ www.parliament.uk
  3. ^ www.jisc.ac.uk
  4. ^ Klaus-Dieter Alicke. "Bielitz (Oberschlesien), Winsen (Aller)". Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum (in German). Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  5. ^ "My name teaches me old hate is still alive". blogs.timesofisrael.com. 20 May 2020. Archived from the original on 10 June 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  6. ^ May, Luke (13 December 2019). "Conservative Tom Tugendhat suffered antisemitism during Tonbridge and Malling General Election 2019 campaign". Kent Online. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  7. ISBN 978-0950752808
    .
  8. ^ Michael Hornsby (3 December 1980). "Tugendhat Escape in Brussells [sic?] shooting". The Times. p. 1.
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-0-14-102330-4
    .
  10. ^ "Christopher Tugendhat : Political Economy : OMFIF". www.omfif.org. Archived from the original on 27 May 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  11. ^ www.debretts.com
  12. ^ www.burkespeerage.com
  13. ^ "No. 52173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1990. p. 2.
  14. ^ "No. 53462". The London Gazette. 20 October 1993. p. 16835.
  15. ^ Profile Archived 2 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine, bath.ac.uk; accessed 19 April 2016.
  16. ^ "Honorary Graduates 1989 to present". bath.ac.uk. University of Bath. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  17. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2015. p. 1235.

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