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  Nicholas Soames - The Internet Forum
Nicholas Soames was born on 12th February 1948.
In August 2002, Nicholas Soames joined Lord Tebbit in attacking the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Nicholas Soames, who supported Michael Portillo’s bid for the leadership, was scathing of attempts by the Mr Duncan Smith to recruit more women and ethnic minority candidates.
theinternetforum.co.uk /soames   (249 words)

  
  Nicholas Soames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in Croydon, and is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, the son of Lord Soames and Baroness Soames, a nephew of the former Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and Diana Churchill; the journalist Randolph Churchill and the actress and dancer Sarah Churchill.
Soames is a close friend of HRH The Prince of Wales and publicly criticised Diana, Princess of Wales during the couple's estrangement.
Soames, known as a bon viveur (he was once called a 'one man food mountain' by Tony Banks, Labour MP) with little appetite for political correctness, clashed with a Jewish businessman at a top Chinese restaurant in summer 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Soames   (794 words)

  
 Christopher Soames, Baron Soames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soames served in the Cabinet of Harold Macmillan as Secretary of State for War from 1958 to 1960 and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1960 to 1964 under Macmillan and his successor Alec Douglas-Home.
From 1979 to 1981 he was Conservative leader in the House of Lords and thus a minister in Margaret Thatcher's government concurrent with his duties in Rhodesia.
Soames was the son of Captain Arthur Granville Soames, descendant of a brewing family which became part of the landed gentry, by his wife Hope Mary Woodbine Parrish.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Soames,_Baron_Soames   (265 words)

  
 Search: spoken by Nicholas Soames (TheyWorkForYou.com)
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what his assessment is of the impact on arms training of the current operational tempo; (2) how many battle group and above formation training exercises were cancelled in each of the last four years; and where each was due to take place.
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many officer cadets are in training at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; what the service personnel establishment is; what the civilian establishment is; and what the annual running costs were in each of the last five years.
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many officer cadets are in training at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell; what the service personnel establishment is; what the civilian establishment is; and what the annual costs were in each of the last five years.
www.theyworkforyou.com /search/?pid=10555&pop=1   (1132 words)

  
 The Hon Nicholas Soames MP - About - Section Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
After the 2005 General Election Nicholas stood down from the Shadow Cabinet and he now takes a very active role in Opposition on the backbenches and he is a member of the Executive of the 1922 Committee.
Nicholas was born in 1948 and was educated at
Nicholas worked on the staff of a United States Senator in Washington D.C for two years and then joined a firm of Lloyds Brokers as a Director.
www.nicholassoames.org.uk /index.php?sectionid=2   (409 words)

  
 Great Coastal Promotions - Nicholas Soames
Nicholas Soames bought his first 35mm camera to document the devastating effects of the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires while working as a summer fire-fighter for the then Forest Commission, now known as the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
Nicholas still loves his 35 mm Canon SLR camera, but it can no longer compete with digital technology in the world of photo-journalism.
Nicholas' series of panoramic photographs taken around Anglesea and along the Great Ocean Road, go some way in debunking the myth that film is better, but he'll let you be the judge of that.
www.anglesea-online.com.au /gcp/Nicholas_Soames.htm   (201 words)

  
 Conservative Party - Profile
Nicholas spent nearly two and a half years on the staff of a United States Senator in Washington D.C. and then in 1977 spent four years as a Director with a firm of Lloyds Brokers.
Nicholas was re-elected in 2005 with an increased share of the vote.
Nicholas has specialist knowledge in the fields of defence, Europe, international affairs, trade and industry, aviation and the countryside.
www.conservatives.com /people/person.cfm?PersonID=4777   (687 words)

  
 ALIEN UK: Government Records
Nicholas Soames: In the past five years RAF aircraft have been scrambled or diverted from task on two occasions to intercept and identify uncorrelated radar tracks entering the United Kingdom air defence region.
Nicholas Soames: The targets were identified as Russian maritime patrol aircraft and were in the northern portion of the UK air defence region.
Nicholas Soames: Where a correction to a parliamentary answer is necessary it is usually our practice for this to be done by means of a pursuant answer in the Official Report.
www.alien-uk.com /recordsmain.htm   (4430 words)

  
 Top Tories quit frontbench | the Daily Mail
Mr Soames, who was shadow defence secretary ahead of the election, said he wanted to be free to speak about a range of issues.
Mr Soames stressed there was no truth in Press speculation suggesting that he would challenge Sir Michael Spicer for the prestigious job of chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers.
Mr Soames, MP for Mid Sussex, said he wanted to be free of the constraints imposed on frontbench spokesmen.
www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/news/elections2005.html?in_page_id=1853&in_article_id=347961   (368 words)

  
 Sky News Transcripts | Transcript
Nicholas Soames : Well there is one very significant difference and that is that this entire operation is predicated on the governments decision to reduce infantry at a time when they have never been more busy or more needed by four battalions.
Nicholas Soames : He is not only a colleague in parliament but he is a great personal friend and I am very sad for Boris.
Nicholas Soames : That is not a matter for me. It is a matter for the leader of my political party.
www.skynewstranscripts.co.uk /transcript.asp?id=40   (1482 words)

  
 Nicholas_Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He was born in Croydon, and is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, the son of Lord Soames, a nephew of the former Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and Diana Churchill; the journalist Randolph Churchill and the actress and dancer Sarah Churchill.
Soames, known as a bon viveur (he was once called a 'one man food mountain' by a Labour MP) with little appetite for political correctness, clashed with a Jewish businessman at a top Chinese restaurant in summer 2004.
Soames' alleged anti-Semitism and general cultural fogeyism seems to put him at odds with much of the modern Tory party.
www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Nicholas_Soames   (719 words)

  
 Conditionally Exempt Art - Three Tiers - One Buffet - Pure Mahogany
By exercising his and others` right to see the magnificent mahogany buffet that is in Mr Soames' possession and for the cost of a stamp with a nominal charge it was possible to view Nicholas Soames` magnificent three tier mahogany buffet table at Christies in London.
Soames the soapy state dodger still has plenty more artifacts on the tax exempt heritage list; including meat dishes, salt and pepper pots, paintings of his grandad and various other kinky bits for all to see.
Nicholas " Fatty" Soames is the grandson of Winston Churchill.
www.fnord.demon.co.uk /mt/soames.html   (1465 words)

  
 AM Archive - British MP says Australia should keep monarchy
Nicholas Soames, a former minister in John Major's Conservative government, says it would be a great pity if Australia stopped being a constitutional monarchy.
NICHOLAS SOAMES: The first thing is that Australians do what Australia thinks is right, and I have no doubt that people will go to the vote having thought very carefully about what is right for Australia and what is right for them.
NICHOLAS SOAMES: I don't wish to be disrespectful to my friends in Australia, but I have an awful confession to tell you - I'm quite sure he hasn't seen any of it.
www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s64154.htm   (624 words)

  
 Nicholas I on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nicholas strove to serve his country's best interests as he saw them, but his methods were dictatorial, paternalistic, and often inadequate.
Nicholas brutally suppressed the uprising (1830-31) in Poland and abrogated the Polish constitution and Polish autonomy.
Gordon, left, and Nicholas Rubin, are shown at their bar mitzvah in Berlin, Germany, with a photo of Groucho Marx, hanging on the wall.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/n/nichls1-r1us.asp   (1038 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Soames: PM was right to believe weapons posed risk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Story in full NICHOLAS Soames, the shadow defence secretary, has defended Tony Blair’s case for going to war, by vouching personally for the robustness of the intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Soames said he had no doubt when he was a defence minister in the mid-1990s that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and possibly posed a nuclear threat.
Mr Soames praises The Scotsman for running a "very handsome and good piece", and said the disquiet in the army about kit problems was not confined to the Black Watch.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=193362004   (770 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Nicholas Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nicholas Soames was first elected to the Commons in 1983.
In becoming a politician, he was following in extremely distinguished family footsteps - he is the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill and his father, Christopher Soames, was governor of Rhodesia and leader of the House of Lords.
An Old Etonian, Mr Soames is a hunting, shooting and fishing country gentlemen who is a close friend of the Prince of Wales and is strongly constitutionally conservative.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2174204.stm   (176 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - nil and others
Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames was educated in Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England.
Sir Nicholas Soames, Baron Soames and Dame Mary Churchill, in 1981.
Sir Nicholas Soames, Baron Soames and Dame Mary Churchill, in 1993.
www.thepeerage.com /p10627.htm   (822 words)

  
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Nicholas Soames is a Tory MP—the sort who is instantly at home in the club-like atmosphere of the House of Commons with its adolescent misbehaviour, its false camaraderie and its ravenous appetite for rumour.
To put it another way, Soames is an overweight, arrogant buffoon who, had he not been born into a very rich family, would have had difficulty in persuading an employer to give him a job stacking shelves in a supermarket.
The same goes for members of the ruling class; it is no achievement of theirs to be born of parents like Nicholas Soames or Rupert Murdoch or Jonathan Aitken.
www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/sep99/polesep.html   (1024 words)

  
 Observer | Top Tory: 'We look like bloody fools'
Nicholas Soames, the former Defence Minister, accused his leader of creating an 'unwelcome, foolish and unnecessary distraction' with his purge of Portilloites at the party's headquarters, prompting the past fortnight's bloodletting.
Soames said Portillo had decided not to stand again because he was 'bruised' by his rejection last time, reflecting the view that Portillo will act as kingmaker rather than contender if there is a leadership challenge in May.
Soames said he was fond of Kenneth Clarke, the other leading contender, but 'Ken cannot walk down the street without wanting to cross the road and sock someone'.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4616415-108676,00.html   (410 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Nicholas Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Right Honourable Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, LG, DBE, MBE (born 15 September 1922) is the widow of Christopher Soames, Baron Soames.
Billy Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Remove, was a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton (using the nom de plume of Frank Richards) as for stories set at Greyfriars School in the boys weekly magazine The Magnet.
This is a list of MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the United Kingdom general election, 2005, arranged by constituency.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nicholas-Soames   (3118 words)

  
 News | Telegraph
Nicholas Soames, the shadow defence secretary, being a former officer in the 11th Hussars, felt it incumbent on himself yesterday to congratulate one of the men.
Mr Soames opened a defence debate by saying he was sure the whole House would wish him to congratulate this man on having just received in Washington the Distinguished Public Service medal of the United States for his exploits in the Iraq war.
Well done, Hoon, Mr Soames seemed to be saying in that admittedly rather patronising tone that officers of his background cannot avoid using, however unwittingly, to simple Defence Secretaries.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/14/nsket14.xml   (684 words)

  
 Nicholas Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Soames es un amigo cercano de Charles, príncipe de País de Gales y Diana público criticada, princesa de País de Gales durante el estrangement del par.
En 1996, Soames fue criticado por la marca Thomas del cómico en su programa de la televisión del canal 4, que sugirió que martes el 14 que de mayo 1996 deben ser Soames nacional Day.
Soames, conocido como viveur del bon con poco apetito para la corrección política, clashed con un hombre de negocios judío en un restaurante chino superior en el verano 2004.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ni/Nicholas%20Soames.htm   (612 words)

  
 Man Bites Poodle
Apart from being Sir Winston Churchill’s grandson—his mother is Winnie’s only surviving child, Mary—Nicholas’s other attributes are a Falstaffian girth and sense of humor, a booming voice and cut-glass accent, and as an ex-minister of the armed forces and present shadow defense minister, an inside knowledge of how the world works.
Soames was first up and did a very good job.
In closing, I reminded the audience of the great affection I had for Nicholas Soames and his family—I have romanced his sister—and recounted to them what one of his girlfriends had said to me about him very long ago.
www.amconmag.com /2004_07_05/taki.html   (877 words)

  
 West Sussex Conservatives
Nicholas was born in 1948.He was educated at St. Aubyns, Sussex and Eton College.
He is the son of The Late Lord Soames and grandson of Sir Winston Churchill and is married with two sons and a daughter.
Nicholas spent two and a half years on the staff of a United States Senator in Washington D.C. and then in 1977 spent four years as a Director with a firm of Lloyds Brokers.
www.westsussexconservatives.info /page.php?pid=18   (1671 words)

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