Here Today Gone Tomorrow: Memoirs of an Errant Politician

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In 1966 Nott became MP for St Ives, Cornwall, a seat which he was to hold until his retirement in 1983. He then went up to Trinity College from 1957 to 1959 to read Law and Economics and was also President of the Cambridge Union in his final year.

The papers chiefly relate to Sir John Nott's time in Margaret Thatcher's government, particularly his tenure as Secretary of State for Defence during the Falklands War. Sir John William Frederic Nott KCB [1] (born 1 February 1932 in Bideford, Devon) is a former British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Margaret Thatcher's defence secretary Sir John Nott suspends Tory membership because of 'poisonous' EU campaign". He was widely criticised by Royal Navy chiefs over the 1981 Defence White Paper for his decision to cut back on forward government naval expenditure during the severe economic recession of the early 1980s; the reductions originally included the proposed scrapping of the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Endurance and the reduction of the Surface Fleet to 50 frigates and from three to two aircraft carriers.

Closures of individual files are noted in the paper catalogue, please ask staff for further details. Of course I knew that we had some Royal Marines there, but I had to remind myself as to where the Falkland Islands were when the scrap merchants landed on South Georgia. Subjects include: Admiral Sir Charles Lambe; Davis's view of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Mountbatten of Burma, including an extract from Davis's 1974 diary about him; opinions of Sir Winston Churchill, Field Marsha 1st Lord Slim and Field Marshal 1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein; the loss of HMSS Prince of Wales and Repulse, 1941; Roskill's dispute with his fellow-historian Arthur Marder; views of the wartime admirals, particularly Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Cunningham; the results of the.He did so, but where is uncertain; and on the 8th October, 1789, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians; about which time, on Dr. This biography is part of a series of historical obituaries, produced for the Royal College of Physicians.

The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice. Our edited collection, Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge, will be available in Autumn 2022. Their daughter, Sasha, is a journalist married to the former MP for East Devon, Hugo Swire, Baron Swire, and published controversial diaries about life as a parliamentarian's wife in the early 21st century. We lost a lot of people, a lot of people were wounded and many were disabled, that was a great tragedy for them, but they should feel proud and the Falkland Islands should feel proud that they'd all brought about this result. When I was alone with her later in the evening I expressed my scepticism about the possibility of such an exercise.During his chairmanship a cabinet crisis took place on the future of Westland Helicopters which severely rocked the Thatcher government. Nott served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Cornwall constituency of St Ives from 1966 to 1983. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He joined the Shadow Cabinet in 1976 and the Cabinet when Margaret Thatcher won the 1979 general election.