Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale of Newton, KCVO, PC (29 March 1901 – 25 September 1971) was a British businessman and

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politician.

Background and education

McCorquodale was the son of Norman McCorquodale, of Winslow Hall,

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, and the grandson of

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, founder of McCorquodale printers. His mother was Constance Helena, daughter of Edmund Charles Burton. He was educated at Harrow and

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Business career

McCorquodale was chairman of McCorquodale and Company Ltd, and a director of the

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Political career

At the 1931 general election, McCorquodale was elected as

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(MP) for Sowerby, and held the seat at the 1935 election. in 1939, he was

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(PPS) to the

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. From 1940 to 1941, he fought in the

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as a Flight Lieutenant in the

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. From 1942 to 1945, he was PPS to the

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. In the Labour Party landslide at the

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, he lost his seat to Labour's John Belcher. In the same year, he was appointed as a

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. McCorquodale returned to

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two years later, when he was elected as MP for in

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at a by-election in December 1947, following the

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of Conservative MP Sir Archibald Southby. He retired from

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at the 1955 general election and in September 1955, he was elevated to the

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as Baron McCorquodale of Newton, of Newton-le-Willows in the County Palatine of Lancaster. He was conferred a K.C.V.O. in the

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Family

Lord McCorquodale married firstly Winifred Sophia Doris, daughter of James Oscar Max Clark, in 1931. They had two daughters, Pamela (b.1934) who married William Forbes of Callendar, and Prudence (b.1936) who married Carel Maurits Mosselmans. After his first wife's death in November 1960, he married secondly the Honourable Daisy Yoskul Consuelo, daughter of

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and widow of both Robert Brampton Gurdon and Alistair Monteith Gibb, in 1962. Lord McCorquodale died in September 1971, aged 70, when the barony became extinct. Lady McCorquodale died in 1979.

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