Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, 1st Baron Nugent, (11 August 1895 – 27 April 1973) was a British soldier and courtier. He was known Sir Terence Nugent between 1945 and 1960.

Background, education and military career

Nugent was the younger son of Brigadier General George Colborne Nugent, eldest son of Sir Edmund Charles Nugent, 3rd Baronet, of Waddesdon (see

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), who was killed in action in 1915. His mother was Isabel Mary Bulwer, daughter of

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Sir Edward Gascoigne Bulwer. Sir Guy Nugent, 4th Baronet, was his elder brother. He was educated at Eton and the

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. He fought in the

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as a major in the

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, was

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, wounded and awarded the

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. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1936.

Career as courtier

Nugent was appointed

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to the

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(the future George VI) in 1927, a post he held until 1936. He subsequently served as Comptroller of the

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between 1936 and 1960 and as an Extra Equerry to George VI between 1937 and 1952 and to

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between 1952 and 1960. He was made a Member of the

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(MVO) in 1927, promoted to Commander (CVO) in 1937, to Knight Commander (KCVO) in 1945 and to Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) in 1952. In 1960 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Nugent, of West Harling in the County of

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. He was also made a Grand Officer of the

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the same year. From 1960 to 1973 he was a Permanent

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to Elizabeth II.

Cricket

Nugent appeared for the Eton XI before the First World War and following it was a regular club cricketer, most frequently playing for the Household Brigade team. In 1920, he made one appearance for

in a

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match against

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. He served as president of the

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in 1962–63 and took the same role at

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for three years in the late 1960s.

Personal life

Lord Nugent married Rosalie Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, daughter of Brigadier-General the Honourable Charles Strathavon Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, in 1935. They had no children. He died in April 1973, aged 77, when the barony became extinct. Lady Nugent died on 20 July 1994.

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