Hugo Swire served as the Member of Parliament for East Devon from 2001 until 2019.
23 Facts About Hugo Swire
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Hugo Swire retired from the House of Commons at the 2019 general election.
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Hugo Swire was privately educated at St Aubyns School, a preparatory school in Rottingdean, East Sussex, and at Eton College.
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Hugo Swire studied at the University of St Andrews for a year before attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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Hugo Swire served in the Grenadier Guards for three years, between 1980 and 1983, before working as a financial consultant.
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Hugo Swire became the first Head of Development for the National Gallery in 1988, before working at the auction house Sotheby's from 1992, where he became a Director in 1996.
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Hugo Swire held this role when standing for election in 2001.
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Hugo Swire was non-executive chairman of Photo-Me International prior to joining the Government.
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Hugo Swire contested Greenock and Inverclyde in 1997, finishing fourth.
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Two years after his election to Parliament, Hugo Swire became an Opposition whip.
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Hugo Swire joined the Shadow Cabinet on 8 December 2005, when new leader David Cameron appointed him Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Hugo Swire was sacked in the July 2007 Conservative frontbench reshuffle for suggesting his party would scrap free museum entry.
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Hugo Swire returned to the backbenches, and amongst other roles became Hon.
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Hugo Swire was made Minister of State for Europe and the Americas on 4 September 2012.
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Hugo Swire believed the Chinese government feared it would cause pro-democracy unrest, though the purpose of the visit was to support trade.
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Hugo Swire resigned from his ministerial post on 15 July 2016, following the sacking of several other ministers who were considered to be close to David Cameron.
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Hugo Swire was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.
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Hugo Swire became Chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council in September 2016, having previously been a member of the group.
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Hugo Swire was featured in articles on questionable expenses claims in The Telegraph, The Guardian and the BBC website in 2009, with attention made to his claims for a designer laptop case, an opera booklet and a satellite navigation system.
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Hugo Swire argued that the claims were sound and that he had not been asked to pay any of them back.
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Hugo Swire stated in 2009 that family members could add value and that his wife has an 'extraordinary knowledge of the constituency having worked for me'.
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Hugo Swire correctly predicted in November 2016 that Donald Trump would win the election for President of the United States of America.
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Hugo Swire married Alexandra Nott, the daughter of Sir John Nott in December 1996 in Kensington.