David Chidgey
David William George Chidgey, Baron Chidgey (9 July 1942 – 15 February 2022) was a British Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh (UK Parliament constituency), Eastleigh from 1994 Eastleigh by-election, 1994 to 2005, and latterly sat in the House of Lords from 2005 until his death. Early life Chidgey was born on 9 July 1942. He attended Brune Park County High School (now called Brune Park Community College) in Gosport. A Chartered Engineer (UK), chartered engineer, Chidgey was educated as a mechanical engineer at the Admiralty College, Portsmouth (Portsmouth Naval College) and then as a civil engineer at the University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Polytechnic. He worked for Hampshire County Council until 1973, and then as a consulting engineer with Brian Colquhoun and Partners until 1994. Political career Chidgey was a councillor from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s on N ...
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The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' ( abbreviation: ''Rt Hon.'' or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is always pronounced. Countries with common or ...
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