Personal Life
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.
He is the fourth generation in the male line of his family to be elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative, following his father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Nick Hurd met his first wife Kim Richards at Oxford University, and they married at Eton Chapel in 1988. The couple has two sons and two daughters together. Their elder son Max Hurd modelled in Burberry's Spring/Summer campaign 2010, alongside Emma Watson. In 2008, they divorced after twenty years of marriage. In 2010, he married Lady Clare Kerr, daughter of the Conservative politician Michael Ancram (now Marquess of Lothian), and 17 years Hurd's junior, after meeting at a party the previous year. On 17 May 2012, Lady Clare Hurd gave birth to a baby girl, Leila.
He is a Governor of Coteford Junior School, a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Grocers.
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