George Arthur Victor Duckworth (3 January 1901 – 14 November 1986), known as Arthur Duckworth, was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the

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(MP) for Shrewsbury at the 1929 general election. He was re-elected in

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and 1935, and held the seat until he retired from the

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at the 1945 election. In 1936, he won 7th place in the ballot for private member's bills, and proposed to bring forward a Medical and Surgical Appliances (Advertisement) Bill. He announced in April 1945 that he would not stand again at the next election.

Personal life

Duckworth married Alice Frances Hammond, a fifth-generation descendant of

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, 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; she married the American bandleader Benny Goodman the following month.

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* 1901 births 1986 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1900s-stub