Charles John Addison Doughty
Member of Parliament
for East Surrey
In office
1951–1970
Preceded byMichael Astor
Succeeded byWilliam Clark

Charles John Addison Doughty, QC (21 September 1902 – 10 July 1973) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

A son of Sir Charles Doughty, QC and Lady Alison (née Addison) Doughty, one of four siblings. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Doughty was called to the bar in 1926 by the Inner Temple. During the Second World War, he saw service with the Coldstream Guards.

He was Member of Parliament for East Surrey from 1951 to 1970. It was he who in 1954 persuaded then Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to go through with the presentation of his famous but disliked portrait by Graham Sutherland to avoid offending the members of Parliament who financially contributed to it.[1]

In 1955, he succeeded to his father as Recorder of Brighton, serving until 1971, becoming honorary recorder afterward.

Doughty married fellow Conservative Party member Adelaide Baillieu Shackell (1908–1986), on 29 July 1931[2] at St Margaret's, Westminster.[3] They had a son and a daughter.[2] She served from 1967 to 1968 as Chairperson of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. In 1978 she was named President. She was appointed a Dame in 1971.

References

  1. ^ Black, Jonathan (23 March 2017). Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to the Present Day: The Titan With. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 154–170. ISBN 9781472592415. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b Spellman, Jill M. Davidson (2004). "Doughty, Dame Adelaide Baillieu (1908–1986)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63367. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Table Talk of the Week". Table Talk (3306). Melbourne, Victoria: 4. 17 September 1931. Retrieved 13 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

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