{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | image_size = | name = Nigel Pengelly | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|5|29}} | birth_place = Red Deer, Alberta<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WL6IAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Pengelly,+Nigel%22|title = Guide Parlementaire Canadien|year = 1989}}</ref> | death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|7|3|1925|5|29}} | death_place = Ponoka, Alberta | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta | constituency = Innisfail | term_start = 1979 | term_end = 1989 | predecessor = Clifford Doan | successor = Gary Severtson | party = Progressive Conservative | occupation = }}
'''Nigel Ian Pengelly''' (May 29, 1925 – July 3, 2010) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada.<ref>http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/obits.cgi?cmpRegion=&paper=107&name=Pengelly&paperSelect=107&submit=Search+obituaries {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1989. He sat in the back benches of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.
==Political career== Pengelly ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislative Assembly in the 1979 Alberta general election. He won the Innisfail electoral district by a wide margin defeating three other candidates to hold it for the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.<ref name="elec1">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1979&Constit=Innisfail| title=Innisfail results 1979| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=October 4, 2009}}</ref> He would be re-elected to a second term with his largest plurality in the 1982 Alberta general election.<ref name="elec2">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1982&Constit=Innisfail| title=Innisfail results 1982| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=October 4, 2009}}</ref> The general election of 1986 Alberta general election would see Pengelly re-elected to his third and final term. His popular vote dropped significantly but he still won with a landslide margin.<ref name="elec3">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1986&Constit=Innisfail| title=Innisfail results 1986| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=October 4, 2009}}</ref> Pengelly would not run for another term and retired from provincial politics at the dissolution of the Assembly in 1989.
The Pengelly family originates in Cornwall, United Kingdom, the name meaning "head of the grove" in the Cornish language.<ref>White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames.(Penrose mentioned by name)</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pengelly, Nigel}} Category:1925 births Category:Canadian people of Cornish descent Category:2010 deaths Category:People from Red Deer, Alberta Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta