Edward Nugee

Edward George "Ted" Nugee (9 August 1928 – 30 December 2014) was an English barrister. Nugee was described in his London Times obituary as "one of the pre-eminent Chancery barristers of his generation". He was involved in number of significant cases on tax and pensions, as well as being a regularly published correspondent in letters to the editor of The Times.

Nugee attended Brambletye School in East Grinstead and Radley College in Oxfordshire, from where he won a scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, to read Classics. Promoted to the rank of Captain in May 1955, Nugee was awarded the Territorial Decoration in July 1964, before retiring from the Intelligence Corps in November 1964.

Law He was called to the bar in 1955 at the Inner Temple and became a pupil at 2 New Square in Lincoln's Inn, but soon thereafter moved to chambers at 3 New Square, later known as Wilberforce Chambers. He was Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 1996.

In 1962, Nugee was asked to join the legal team advising the Colonial Office on administrative issues in Uganda, then a British protectorate and soon to become independent. His role was to advise on the boundaries of traditional areas and tribal domains; he took great pleasure in researching the pre-colonial administration of the Baganda people, taking evidence from elders who could personally remember the period before the British arrived in 1898, and was instrumental in advising the Colonial Office to restore to the Baganda people authority over some of their traditional territory.

In 1967 Nugee was made a Junior Counsel for the Land Commission. From 1968 to 1977 he was Counsel for Litigation under the Commons Registration Act 1965. He was also Conveyancing Counsel to the Treasury, the Defence Department, the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries and the Forestry Commission. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1977.

In addition to his practice Nugee did a great deal of work for the Family Welfare Association, the Mothers' Union, the London Citizens' Advice Bureau, and for Poor Man’s Lawyer in Lewisham.

He also served on the Council of Legal Education from 1967 to 1990, and assisted the Law Commission.

Between 1982 and 1997 he often sat as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery Division. They had four sons, including Sir Christopher Nugee and Lt-Gen Richard Nugee. dealing with issues of ecclesiastical law. Nugee inherited the family patronages of the livings of East Farndon, Farlington as well as the joint parish of Wymering & Cosham, a responsibility he took seriously and discharged for the remainder of his life. Chairman of the Board of Governors of Brambletye from 1972 until 1977, he also served on Radley College Council for 20 years until 1997, and as a council member of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, through which he traced the Nugee family's history back to Huguenot refugees in the 17th century.