Sir Hugo Laurence Joseph Brunner KCVO KStJ JP (born 17 August 1935) was Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire , England , between 1996 and 2008. He was succeeded by Tim Stevenson . He was also a Liberal Party politician.
3-712: The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board established in 1999 was the brainchild of Sir Hugo Brunner , then Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and Edwin Townsend-Coles, Chairman of the Oxford Civic Society . The Board is an autonomous voluntary body whose members are drawn from cultural organisations and local government across the county. It awards and installs blue plaques on buildings in Oxford and Oxfordshire to commemorate very remarkable residents and, occasionally, historic events. For more detailed information, see
6-722: The Board’s website. Hugo Brunner Hugo Brunner is the son of Sir Felix Brunner , 3rd Bt . (1897–1982), and Elizabeth Irving , the granddaughter of the Victorian era actor-manager Henry Irving . He contested the Torquay division of Devon for the Liberal Party at the 1964 General Election and the 1966 General Election . Brunner was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1988 and Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire in 1996. He has been an enthusiastic supporter of
9-555: The installation of blue plaques through his chairmanship of the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board , established in 1999 and administered by the Oxford Civic Society . Brunner was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Oxford Brookes University in 1999. His family home was Greys Court in south Oxfordshire and he now lives in North Oxford . Brunner was appointed a Knight of Justice of
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