Sir Roland Thomas Nugent, 1st Baronet (19 June 1886 – 18 August 1962)[1] was an Ulster Unionist Party politician from Northern Ireland. He was a member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1936 until his resignation in 1961. He served as Deputy Speaker (1938–1939 and 1944), Leader (1944–1950) and Speaker (1950–1961).[2]
Nugent married Cynthia Maud Ramsden, daughter of Captain Frederick William Ramsden and Lady Elizabeth Maud Conyngham (the daughter of The 3rd Marquess Conyngham) on 25 September 1917. The couple had three children; both his sons were killed in action in World War II:
Elizabeth Anne Nugent (born 10 March 1919)
Lieutenant Patrick Edmund Charles Nugent (4 November 1920 – 27 April 1943)
Lieutenant John Andrew Nugent (1 September 1925 – 5 October 1944)[citation needed]
^"Obituary: Sir Roland Nugent", The Guardian, 29 August 1962, p.2
^Raymond Streat, Marguerite Dupree, ed, Lancashire and Whitehall: The Diary of Sir Raymond Streat, Volume one: 1931-39, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987) p. 90.
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