Charles Doughty (politician)

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

Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Doughty was called to the bar in 1926 by the Inner Temple.

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.

Doughty married fellow Conservative Party member Adelaide Baillieu Shackell (1908–1986), on 29 July 1931[2] at St Margaret's, Westminster.

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