Nicholas Soames Career Education And Military Career

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1 Career

1.1 Education and military career

After attending St. Aubyns in Sussex, he received his secondary education at Eton College. Later, he studied at Mons Officer Cadet School. He served in West Germany and his native United Kingom with the 11th Hussars of the British Army.

1.2 Early career

In 1970 he became Equerry to the Prince of Wales. In 1972 he left to work as a stock broker. In 1974, he became a personal assistant; first to Sir James Goldsmith and then in 1976 to United States Senator Mark Hatfield, whose service he left in 1978 to become a director of Lloyds Brokers. Between 1979 and 1981, he was an assistant director of Sedgwick Group.

1.3 Parliamentary career

Soames has been an MP without interruption since the early 1980s. Before 1997, when his party lost the general election, he was MP for Crawley, and served as Minister of State for the Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence under John Major. He is now Shadow Secretary of State for Defence and chairman of Framlington Second Dual Trust PLC.

2 Criticisms

In 1996, Soames was criticised by comedian Mark Thomas in his Channel 4 television programme, who suggested that Tuesday 14 May 1996 should be National Soames Day. Thomas accused him of dishonestly registering some inherited heirlooms as conditionally exempt works of art, which do not attract inheritance tax if the public has access to them. Thomas claimed the public had not been granted access. The second National Soames Day was observed by some of his detractors on Saturday 28 February 1998.

Soames, known as a bon viveur with little appetite for political correctness, clashed with a Jewish businessman at a top Chinese restaurant in summer 2004. Afterwards, The Sunday Times ( 18 July 2004, p3) dubbed him Fat Boy Dim. It has been suggested that Soames was the unnamed senior Tory at the 2004 party conference who was quoted in The Guardian as allegedly saying that "the trouble is that the Tory party is being run by Michael Howard, Maurice Saatchi and Oliver Letwin, and none of them really know what it is to be English" (The New Statesman and The Sunday Telegraph have printed a similar quote bemoaning the fact that "Saatchi, Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin are in charge; could they know how Englishmen felt?"). Soames' alleged anti-Semitism and general cultural fogeyism seems to put him at odds with much of the modern Tory party.

3 External links

Nicholas Soames' magnificent three-tier mahogany buffet with partially reeded slender baluster upright supports
Mark Thomas is interviewed, in part about Soames

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