Nigel Ian Pengelly (May 29, 1925 – July 3, 2010) was a provincial level politician from

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. He served as a member of the

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from 1979 to 1989. He sat in the back benches of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.

Political career

Pengelly ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislative Assembly in the

1979 Alberta general election The 1979 Alberta general election was held on March 14, 1979, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which had been expanded to 79 seats. The Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed won its third consecutive term in ...

. He won the Innisfail electoral district by a wide margin defeating three other candidates to hold it for the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. He would be re-elected to a second term with his largest plurality in the

1982 Alberta general election The 1982 Alberta general election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. History Less than four years had passed since the Progressive Conservatives won their landslide victory in 1979. Premie ...

. The general election of

1986 Alberta general election The 1986 Alberta general election was held on May 8, 1986, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Peter Lougheed, who had created the modern Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, Alberta Progressive Conservatives, ...

would see Pengelly re-elected to his third and final term. His popular vote dropped significantly but he still won with a landslide margin. Pengelly would not run for another term and retired from provincial politics at the dissolution of the Assembly in 1989. The Pengelly family originates in

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, United Kingdom, the name meaning "head of the grove" in the

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.White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames.(Penrose mentioned by name)

References

External links

Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pengelly, Nigel 1925 births Canadian people of Cornish descent 2010 deaths People from Red Deer, Alberta Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta