Walter de Frece
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Sir Walter de Frece (7 October 1870 – 7 January 1935) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1920 to 1931.
He was first elected as MP for Ashton-under-Lyne at a by-election in 1920, after the constituency's Conservative MP Sir Albert Stanley was elevated to the peerage.
He was re-elected at the 1922 general election and at the 1923 general election, when his majority was cut to only 239 votes. At the 1924 general election he did not stand again in Ashton-under-Lyne, but moved to the more promising Blackpool constituency, where he was returned with a majority of over 7,000 votes. He held the seat with a similar majority in 1929, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1931 general election.
[edit] References
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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| Preceded by Albert Stanley |
Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne 1920–1924 |
Succeeded by Cornelius Homan |
| Preceded by Hugh Mowbray Meyler |
Member of Parliament for Blackpool 1924–1931 |
Succeeded by Clifford Erskine-Bolst |
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