Richard Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford

George Richard Hodges Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford, (6 June 1907 – 16 March 1994), known as Sir Richard Nugent, 1st Baronet between 1960 and 1966, was a British Conservative politician.

Background Nugent was the son of Colonel George Roubiliac Hodges Nugent and his wife Violet Stella, daughter of Henry Theopphilus Sheppard. He was educated at the Imperial Service College and went then to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Nugent entered the British House of Commons in 1950, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Guildford until 1966. He became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in 1951, an office he held until 1957. and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1962.

In 1944, Nugent became a member of the National Farmers Union's executive council and in 1948 a vice-chairman of the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs, occupying both posts until 1951.

Family

On 29 July 1937, Nugent married Ruth Stafford, daughter of Hugh Granville Stafford. Nugent died at Dunsfold in 1994.