David William George Chidgey, Baron Chidgey (9 July 1942 – 15 February 2022) was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh from 1994 to 2005, and latterly sat in the House of Lords from 2005 until his death.
Chidgey was a councillor from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s on New AlresfordTown council and WinchesterCity Council. He contested the Hampshire Central European Parliament constituency at by-election in 1988 and at the 1989 European Parliament election. He was Regional Chairman of the Hampshire and Wight Liberal Democrats from 1992 to 1994.
In 2007, Chidgey was named a member of the AWEPA Governing Council.[6]
In 2008 Chidgey was named the Chairman of the oversight committee for the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, a think tank devoted to policy concerns throughout the Commonwealth.
Personal life and death
Chidgey married April Carolyn Idris-Jones in 1965 in Gosport. They had a son and two daughters. He died on 15 February 2022, at the age of 79, from COVID-19.[7][8]
Arms
Coat of arms of David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey
Crest
Issuant from a coronet of fleurs-de-lys Or an eagle's head Argent gorged with a wreath of oak leaves Proper.
Escutcheon
Gules on a bend counter-embattled Argent three patriarchal crosses their limbs transposed Gules.
