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Ruth Crisp English was a Suffolk born British Liberal Party politician.

Suffolk County of England

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Background

She was the only child of Sir Thomas Crisp English and Annie Gaunt McLeod of Sudbury, Suffolk. [1] Her father was a surgeon to Winston Churchill.

Sudbury, Suffolk town in Suffolk, England

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Political career

After the war she got active in the Liberal Party. She was the Hon. Secretary of the Westminster Liberal Party and an Executive Member of the London Liberal Party. [3] On a number of occasions she tried to get elected to Westminster City Council by contesting the Grosvenor Ward, without success. [4] In 1949 she was adopted as Liberal Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Lowestoft Division of Suffolk and she contested the 1950 General Election. It was not a promising seat for the Liberals, who had not won it since 1918 and had come third at the last election in 1945. In an election where many Liberal candidates lost their deposit, she managed to avoid that embarrassment;

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Lowestoft was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Lowestoft in Suffolk. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

General Election 1950: Lowestoft [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Labour Edward Evans 20,83844.8
Conservative P G Whitefoord17,51637.7
Liberal Ruth Crisp English8,13217.5
Majority3,3227.1
Turnout 55,45683.8
Labour hold Swing

Aubrey Herbert

Later in life, she married County Councillor Aubrey Herbert, son of Sir Jesse Herbert, a senior figure in the Liberal Party organisation before the First World War. [6] Aubrey had been President of the Oxford Union [7] and had himself stood for parliament for the Liberals at Chester in 1929 (missing out on election by 162 votes) and 1931, and Sudbury and Woodbridge in 1959. [8] They had no children.

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References

  1. ↑ Who's Who: www.ukWhosWho.com
  2. ↑ The Times House of Commons, 1950
  3. ↑ The Times House of Commons, 1950
  4. ↑ Who's Who of 475 Liberal Candidates fighting the 1950 General Election
  5. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1950-1973, Craig, F. W. S.
  6. ↑ Who's Who: www.ukWhosWho.com
  7. ↑ The Times House of Commons, 1931
  8. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1950-1973, Craig, F. W. S.
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