Arthur Duckworth

George Arthur Victor Duckworth (3 January 1901 – 14 November 1986),[1] known as Arthur Duckworth, was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shrewsbury at the 1929 general election.[2] He was re-elected in 1931[3] and 1935,[4] and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1945 election.[5]

In 1936, he won 7th place in the ballot for private member's bills,[6] and proposed to bring forward a Medical and Surgical Appliances (Advertisement) Bill.[6]

He announced in April 1945 that he would not stand again at the next election.[7]

Personal life

Duckworth married Alice Frances Hammond, a fifth-generation descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, in March 1927; they had three daughters. The couple were divorced in February 1942, on the grounds of his wife's adultery in New York;[8] she married the American bandleader Benny Goodman the following month.[9]

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
  2. "No. 33508". The London Gazette. 21 June 1929. p. 4113.
  3. "No. 33769". The London Gazette. 6 November 1931. p. 7143.
  4. "No. 34223". The London Gazette. 26 November 1935. p. 7503.
  5. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 452. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  6. "Commons Ballot Private Members' Bills, Variety Of Subjects". The Times. London. 6 February 1936. pp. 14, col G.
  7. Thatcher, Margaret (10 December 1981). "Speech to the Shrewsbury Beaconsfield Club (centenary dinner)". Margaret Thatcher Foundation. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
  8. "M.P. Granted Decree Nisi". The Times. London. 17 February 1942. pp. 2, col D.
  9. "Goodman Is Wed to Alice Hammond". Nielsen Business Media (Billboard). 28 March 1942. pp. 5–. Retrieved 9 January 2019.


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