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Bill Shelton (politician)
Sir William Jeremy Masefield Shelton (30 October 1929 – 2 January 2003) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Clapham from 1970 to February 1974, then for Streatham from February 1974 until he lost the seat to Labour Party candidate Keith Hill in 1992. Business and personal life Shelton was born in Plymouth, the son of Lt Col Richard Shelton of Guernsey, and attended Radley College in Radley, Berkshire. He was evacuated in 1940, studying at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, on an English-Speaking Union scholarship, and then Worcester College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Then he lectured on economics for a year at the University of Texas at Austin, before moving into business and advertising, which included work in South America. Shelton married Anne Warder in 1960, and was knighted in 1989. Shelton developed Alzheimer's disease in the 1990s, and it eventually caused his deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clapham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Clapham was a borough constituency in South London which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was created in time for the 1885 general election then altered in periodic national boundary reviews, principally in 1918, and abolished before the February 1974 general election. In its early years (until 1918) the seat was officially named Battersea and Clapham Parliamentary Borough: No. 2—The Clapham Division. Boundaries 1885–1918: In 1885 the constituency was established as one of two divisions of a new parliamentary borough to be named Battersea and Clapham, in the northern part of the historic county of Surrey. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided the constituency, carved out of a corner of East Surrey, was to consist of: 1918–1950: In the redistribution of 1918 the seat was altered to remove half of the wards which constituted Battersea (into a new seat of Battersea South) and to instead consist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
