At the insistence of Margaret Thatcher and with the support of her Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, the excessively costly dam was financed with the money of British taxpayers in order to secure a major arms deal, despite objections raised by civil servants in the British Foreign Office.
In 1988 the then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd banned Sinn Féin from the airwaves in response to Irish Republican Army bombing campaigns.
Send Him Victorious is a political thriller, written in 1968 by Andrew Osmond (a former officer of Gurkha troops and diplomat) and Douglas Hurd (another former diplomat who later became a MP and Cabinet minister.
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His early jobs involved work for BP and Rio Tinto Group before being appointed in 1987 as special adviser to the then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd.
Those present at the meeting included John Major, David Mellor, Douglas Hurd, Tom King, Norman Lamont, Peter Lilley, John Wakeham, Robin Butler, David Craig, Patrick Mayhew, Percy Cradock, Charles Powell and Gus O'Donnell.
Distinguished winners of the Newcastle Scholarship in its original form include Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, WR Inge, Patrick Shaw-Stewart, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Douglas Hurd and William Waldegrave (currently Provost of Eton College).
The Hon Nick Hurd MP is eldest son of the Conservative Life Peer, Douglas, Lord Hurd of Westwell formerly Member of Parliament, Foreign Secretary and leadership contender under Baroness Thatcher and successively under Sir John Major.