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	* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-936,00.html Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle - David Chidgey]		* [https://web.archive.org/web/20010517121130/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-936,00.html Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle - David Chidgey]
	* [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?pid=10101 TheyWorkForYou.com - David Chidgey]		* [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?pid=10101 TheyWorkForYou.com - David Chidgey]
	* [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=David_Chidgey&mpc=Eastleigh The Public Whip - David Chidgey] voting record		* [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=David_Chidgey&mpc=Eastleigh The Public Whip - David Chidgey] voting record

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{{Short description|British politician (1942–2022)}}
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'''David William George Chidgey, Baron Chidgey''' (9 July 1942 – 15 February 2022) was a British [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] politician who served as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Eastleigh (UK Parliament constituency)|Eastleigh]] from [[1994 Eastleigh by-election|1994]] to 2005, and latterly sat in the [[House of Lords]] from 2005 until his death.

==Early life==
Chidgey was born on 9 July 1942. He attended Brune Park County High School (now called [[Brune Park Community School|Brune Park Community College]]) in [[Gosport]]. A [[Chartered Engineer (UK)|chartered engineer]], Chidgey was educated as a [[Mechanical engineering|mechanical engineer]] at the Admiralty College, Portsmouth (Portsmouth Naval College) and then as a [[civil engineer]] at the [[University of Portsmouth|Portsmouth Polytechnic]].<ref name="Lib Dems Peer profile">{{Cite web|title=David Chidgey|url=https://www.libdems.org.uk/david_chidgey|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Liberal Democrats}}</ref> He worked for [[Hampshire County Council]] until 1973, and then as a consulting engineer with Brian Colquhoun and Partners until 1994.

== Political career ==
Chidgey was a councillor from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s on [[New Alresford]] [[Town council]] and [[Winchester]] [[Municipal council|City Council]]. He contested the Hampshire Central European Parliament constituency at by-election in 1988 and at the [[1989 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|1989 European Parliament election]]. He was Regional Chairman of the Hampshire and Wight Liberal Democrats from 1992 to 1994.

At the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]], he contested the [[Eastleigh (UK Parliament constituency)|Eastleigh constituency]] in [[Hampshire]], finishing second behind the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] candidate, [[Stephen Milligan]].<ref name="Kimber1992">[http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge92/i08.htm United Kingdom general election results 1992: Eastleigh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929103230/http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge92/i08.htm |date=29 September 2007 }}, at Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources</ref> Following Milligan's death in 1994, Chidgey won the [[1994 Eastleigh by-election|resulting by-election]], squeezing the Conservatives into third place.<ref name="Guardian Eastleigh">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/constituency/909/eastleigh |title=Guardian {{!}} Eastleigh election results |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |access-date=14 December 2016 |archive-date=17 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317224647/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/constituency/909/eastleigh |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was re-elected in the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997]]<ref name="Guardian Eastleigh" /> and [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001 general elections]]<ref name="Guardian Eastleigh" /> and stood down at the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]].<ref name="Guardian Eastleigh" />

In the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]], he was a member of the Chairman's panel (2001–2005), an Employment & Training spokesman, Transport spokesman, Trade & Industry spokesman and a member of the [[Foreign Affairs Select Committee]] (1999–2005) and of the [[Joint Committee on Human Rights]] (2003–2005).<ref name="Lib Dems Peer profile" />

On 13 May 2005 it was announced that Chidgey would be created a [[life peer]], and on 17 June 2005 the peerage was created as '''Baron Chidgey''', ''of [[Hamble-le-Rice]] in the [[County of Hampshire]]''.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=57681 |date=22 June 2005 |page=8113}}</ref> In the [[House of Lords]], he was Liberal Democrat spokesman in defence from 2005 to 2006. He was Given the [[Freedom of the City|Freedom of the Borough]] of [[Borough of Eastleigh|Eastleigh]] in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/the-council/mayor-of-eastleigh/freedom-of-the-borough.aspx | title=Civic Honours - Eastleigh Borough Council}}</ref>

In 2007, Chidgey was named a member of the [[AWEPA]] Governing Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awepa.org/index.php/en/about-us/organisational-structure/governing-council.html |title=Governing Council |access-date=14 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116065904/http://awepa.org/index.php/en/about-us/organisational-structure/governing-council.html |archive-date=16 November 2006 |df=dmy }}</ref>

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]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-14 |title=Lord Chidgey obituary |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/lord-chidgey-obituary-vmwk7fl7x |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Former Eastleigh MP David Chidgey dies aged 79 |url=https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-02-15/former-eastleigh-mp-david-chidgey-dies-aged-79 |access-date=15 February 2022 |publisher=ITV News |date=15 February 2022}}</ref>

==Arms==
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|escutcheon = Gules on a bend counter-embattled Argent three patriarchal crosses their limbs transposed Gules.
|crest = Issuant from a coronet of fleurs-de-lys Or an eagle's head Argent gorged with a wreath of oak leaves Proper.
|motto = Croyance Courage Assiduité<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019}}</ref>}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060111185701/http://www.libdems.org.uk/party/people/lord-lord-chidgey.html Lord Chidgey] profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20041206125657/http://www.epolitix.com/EN/MPWebsites/David+Chidgey ePolitix - David Chidgey]}} official site
* [http://www.eastleighlibdems.org.uk Eastleigh Liberal Democrats]
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-936,00.html Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle - David Chidgey]
* [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?pid=10101 TheyWorkForYou.com - David Chidgey]
* [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=David_Chidgey&mpc=Eastleigh The Public Whip - David Chidgey] voting record
* {{C-SPAN|48294}}

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| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Eastleigh (UK Parliament constituency)|Eastleigh]]
| years = [[1994 Eastleigh by-election|1994]]–[[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005]]
| before = [[Stephen Milligan]]
| after = [[Chris Huhne]]
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