Colonel Alan Vincent Gandar Dower (28 March 1898 – 6 May 1980) was a

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officer and politician. He was

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(MP) for

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from 1931 to 1935, and MP for Penrith and Cockermouth from 1935 to 1950. Dower's brother

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was also a Conservative MP, while another brother

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was a well-known explorer.Malies, J. (2004) "Gandar-Dower, Kenneth Cecil", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford All used different versions of their surname: Dower, Gandar Dower and Gandar-Dower respectively.

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