BONSOR, Sir Nicholas Cosmo, 4th Bt (1942- 2023?)
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Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Right-wing Eurosceptic MP who served under John Major – obituary
He was a strong supporter of foxhunting and hanging and an advocate of sporting links with white South Africa
Sir Nicholas Bonsor, 4th Bt, who has died aged 80, was, as Conservative MP for Nantwich and then for Upminster, one of the last of the “knights of the shires”; and despite his Euroscepticism – or perhaps because of it – he was a Foreign Office minister for John Major’s final two years in office.
Sleek, built like a bull and understatedly grand, Bonsor was both a Hambro and descended from Lord Nelson. He farmed 600 acres in Buckinghamshire and, with great effectiveness, chaired the British Field Sports Society….
Bonsor’s seat of Liscombe Park – a Georgianised early Elizabethan house with 14 bedrooms – had been in the family since 1923. He attempted to sell it for £7 million in 1990 as a potential golf course, saying that he could no longer afford to maintain it. Three years later, Brussels paid him £40,000 to cut his grain production….
Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor was born in London on December 9 1942 to Sir Brian Cosmo Bonsor, MC, 3rd Baronet, and the former Elizabeth Hambro. The title had been created in 1925, and he succeeded his father in 1977….
Bonsor’s defeat at Upminster in the May 1997 election that brought Tony Blair to power was one of the heaviest: a majority of 13,821 was converted to a Labour one of 2,770 on a 15.4 per cent swing.
He returned to the Bar in 2003, practising until 2010. In that year’s election he shared a platform with Ukip’s Nigel Farage, who was challenging the Speaker John Bercow at Buckingham.
In 2018 Bonsor became the honorary development director for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, founded by Nigel Lawson to challenge “damaging and harmful policies” put forward to combat climate change.
From 1986 Bonsor chaired the Food Hygiene Bureau (later Checkmate plc). Later, he was chairman of Egerton International and the Metallon Corporation, and vice-chairman of London Mining.
He was at various times chairman of the Standing Council of the Baronetage and the Cyclotron Trust for Cancer Treatment; vice-chairman of the South Eastern Reserve Forces & Cadets Association, and a council member of RUSI. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1988 and was deputy lieutenant for Buckinghamshire in 2007.
Nicholas Bonsor married Nadine Lampson, daughter of the 2nd Baron Killearn, in 1969. They had two sons and three daughters (two of them twins). He is succeeded as 5th Baronet by his elder son Alexander Cosmo Walrond Bonsor, born in 1976.
Nicholas Bonsor, born December 9 1942, died March 21 2023
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Obit in the Times of 8 April 2023:
E X T R A C T
Sir Nicholas Bonsor obituary
Tory MP at the vanguard of his party’s lurch towards Euroscepticism
… Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor was born in 1942 in London. He was educated at Eton and then Keble College, Oxford, where he read law. At Eton he rowed for the college and at Oxford gained a boxing blue, fighting as a heavyweight. His heavy build was suited to his chosen sports and came in handy when he threw the gossip columnist Nigel Dempster into a swimming pool for writing something he judged disobliging about a cousin. On another occasion he nearly killed himself by driving into a concrete bus stop in Oxfordshire while trying to break a driving recor
After university he worked for a spell at Hambros bank before being called to the Bar at Inner Temple. He became 4th Baronet in 1977, aged 35.
His father was Sir Bryan Bonsor, 3rd Baronet and a director of the brewer Watney Mann. His mother, Elizabeth (née Hambro), was from the merchant banking family. His grandfather was Sir Henry Cosmo Bonsor, a Conservative MP for Wimbledon in the late 19th century, who was made the first baronet in 1925. Admiral Horatio Nelson was another ancestor.
In 1969 he married Nadine (née Lampson), the daughter of Baron Killearn. She survives him along with their sons: Alexander, who works in finance and succeeds his father as the 5th Baronet and James, who also works in finance. He is also survived by three daughters: Sacha, a journalist and author, Mary, a lawyer and founder of Flex Legal, and her twin Elizabeth, who works in data analytics. Before his daughters reached adulthood their father stated on record that mothers should stay at home and bring up their children. In the event he was pleased when they pursued their respective careers.
Bonsor’s home was the 16th-century Liscombe Park, a manor in Buckinghamshire. It was easy to see why he was labelled a “knight of the shires”, one of a declining few among Tory MPs. He saw himself as a custodian of a certain view of England and that duty accompanied any sense of entitlement. Serving as an MP was a way of fulfilling it…
…His daughter Sacha said: “Dad was old-fashioned in the best sense of the word — a man of integrity, proud to be English and proud of what he stood for.” Yet, as he observed his party in more recent times, he might have wondered if he had been ahead of his time.
Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Conservative politician, was born on December 9, 1942. He died in his sleep on March 21, 2023, aged 80
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-nicholas-bonsor-obituary-7k2grwpc3
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