Douglas Hurd

The last British foreign secretary to visit the Falklands was Douglas Hurd in 1994.

MI5 had become a "constant target for public comment and scrutiny", wrote then-Home Secretary Douglas Hurd to Mrs Thatcher on 30 March 1988.

Douglas Hurd was one of bright young things of the Conservative Party when he wrote a trilogy of novels in the late 1960s.

The series, which was based on a novel by the Conservative politician Douglas Hurd, was considered very controversial and has never been repeated.

A former Northern Ireland Secretary, Douglas Hurd, once derided Gerry Adams as "Mr 10%" - a sobriquet designed to emphasise that Adams only spoke for a minority of nationalists.