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Nigel Morgan
Nigel Jeremy Morgan (25 September 1954, in Woking, Surrey – 17 November 2018, in Harrismith, South Africa) was a British-South African security consultant. A former British Army officer with close ties to South African intelligence, he was credited with exposing an attempted coup against the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004. Personal Morgan was the son of Ronan 'Bowlegs' Morgan, a hard-drinking publisher who was a regular at El Vino on Fleet Street, and the nephew of rugby player Cliff Morgan. His mother Pamela, a manic-depressive, abandoned the family after Nigel's beloved older brother Malcolm was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1970. Education Schooled at Cranleigh, Morgan entered the Army in 1974 and joined the Irish Guards. He then read Politics at Durham University on a military bursary, where he was President of the Durham Union for Epiphany term of 1978. Per the conditions of the bursary, Morgan was required to complete a minimum period of service with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woking, Surrey
Woking ( ) is a town and borough in northwest Surrey, England, around from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as ''Wochinges'' and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the Paleolithic, but the low fertility of the sandy, local soils meant that the area was the least populated part of the county in 1086. Between the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries, new transport links were constructed, including the Wey Navigation, Basingstoke Canal and London to Southampton railway line. The modern town was established in the mid-1860s, as the London Necropolis Company began to sell surplus land surrounding the railway station for development. Modern local government in Woking began with the creation of the Woking Local Board in 1893, which became Woking Urban District Council (UDC) in 1894. The urban district was significantly enlarged in 1907, when it took in the parish of Horsell, and again in 1933 when it too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hoskyns (policy Advisor)
Sir John Leigh Austin Hungerford Hoskyns (23 August 1927 – 20 October 2014) was best known as a Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher while head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from May 1979 and April 1982. Prior to this he acted as a policy adviser to her and the Shadow Cabinet from 1975–79, during which time he produced, together with Norman Strauss, a business executive from Unilever, the important "Stepping Stones" report of November 1977. Early life Hoskyns was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, the son of an army officer, Chandos Hoskyns. One grandfather, Benedict Hoskyns, was a Church of England clergyman, Dean of Christchurch and Archdeacon of Chichester. The other, Austin Taylor (1858–1955) was a Conservative, later Liberal, politician, who in 1906 changed his party allegiance from Conservative to Liberal over the issue of free trade, alongside Winston Churchill. Hoskyns’s father was killed in 1940, when he was aged twelve. He was educated at Winchester Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
