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Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British Liberal Democrats politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Lord President of the Council from 2010 to 2015 in the Cameron coalition ministry. Clegg was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015 and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam since 2005. Clegg was educated at the University of Cambridge, the University of Minnesota, and the College of Europe, before becoming a journalist for the ''Financial Times'' and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nicholas CLEGG )〕 In 2007 he was elected Leader of the Liberal Democrats, leading his party into a coalition government with the Conservative Party in 2010. In 2015, he resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats following that year's general election at which his party was reduced from 56 MPs to 8 MPs. Clegg is a fluent speaker of five European languages. ==Early life and family== Clegg was born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, the third of four children of Nicholas Peter Clegg, CBE, chairman of United Trust Bank and a former trustee of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (where Ken Clarke was an adviser). Clegg descends from "Russia's old Tsarist nobility": his paternal grandmother, Kira von Engelhardt, Baroness von Smolensk, was a Russian noblewoman, and the granddaughter of Attorney-General of the Russian senate, Ignatiy Platonovich Zakrevsky.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Peerage )〕 His English grandfather was Hugh Anthony Clegg, editor of the ''British Medical Journal'' for 35 years. Clegg's Dutch mother, Hermance van den Wall Bake, was interned, along with her family, by the Japanese military in Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) during World War II. She met Clegg's father during a visit to England in 1956,〔 and they married on 1 August 1959.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nicolas Peter Clegg )〕 Clegg is multilingual: he speaks English, French, Dutch, German, and Spanish.〔〔〔 His background has informed his politics. He says, "There is simply not a shred of racism in me, as a person whose whole family is formed by flight from persecution, from different people in different generations. It's what I am. It's one of the reasons I am a liberal." His Dutch mother instilled in him "a degree of scepticism about the entrenched class configurations in British society". He has said of languages that "The danger is that we (the UK ) can afford to be lazy about languages, because they all want to speak English – English is the most useful, the global language bar none. But I don’t think we should allow that luxury to be a sort of alibi not to learn languages."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quarkonline.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/quark-interviews-nick-clegg/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nick Clegg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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