Preceded by David Bellotti Name Nigel Waterson Nationality British Role Politician | Political party Conservative Party Conservative Party Religion Roman Catholic Succeeded by Stephen Lloyd | |
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Born 12 October 1950 (age 73)
Leeds, West Yorkshire ( 1950-10-12 ) Alma mater The Queen's College, Oxford Spouse Barbara Waterson (m. 1999) Education The Queen's College, Oxford | ||
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Nigel Christopher Waterson (born 12 October 1950, Leeds) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Conservative Party member of Parliament for Eastbourne until the 2010 election. He was first elected in 1992. He was a junior minister in the government of John Major.
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- Nigel waterson chair of board of trustees now pensions talks about auto enrolment
- Early life
- Parliamentary career
- Personal life
- References
Early life
He attended Leeds Grammar School (then a direct grant grammar school) and at The Queen's College, Oxford he read law, getting a BA in 1971. He became a barrister and founded the firm Waterson Hicks. From 1974-8 he was a councillor on Hammersmith and Fulham borough council.
Parliamentary career
He contested Islington South and Finsbury in 1979.
Waterson was the Shadow Minister for Pensions and Conservative Spokesman for Older People and is a patron of many local charities including President of the Eastbourne Constitutional Club and Vice President for Age Concern - Eastbourne. In the Conservative leadership contest in 2005 he backed Ken Clarke to be the next leader before Clarke lost in a preliminary round.
Waterson lost his seat to the Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd in the 2010 general election. Following the election Waterson sued Lloyd for libel regarding claims concerning his expenses in a general election campaign leaflet. Waterson lost this case on appeal in 2013, after winning the initial High Court case in 2011.
Personal life
Waterson married Dr Barbara Judge in 1999. They have two teenage children.
On 29 January 2008 Waterson was arrested for allegedly assaulting his two teenage children. In 2010 the Metropolitan Police Service apologised for any distress caused by the arrest, accepting the allegations were wholly unfounded, and paid damages and costs to Waterson in settlement of a civil claim for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.