Ernle David Drummond Money (17 February 1931 – 14 April 2013) was a

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for

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Biography

Money was educated at

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and

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. He served in the

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from 1949 to 1951. He was called to the Bar in 1958. Money was elected MP for Ipswich in the 1970 general election with a majority of only 13 votes, the lowest majority of that election. The first Conservative to win the seat since the Second World War, he defeated Labour incumbent Sir

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(

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's brother) and was reelected in the February 1974 election with a slightly increased majority of 259, although he subsequently lost the seat in the October 1974 election to

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's Kenneth Weetch by a margin of 1,733 votes. Money retired to

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in the 1990s. In 2010 he was reported in local press urging voters not to re-elect Eastbourne's

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but instead to vote for his

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opponent Stephen Lloyd. Money had homes in both Eastbourne and Malta.

References

*''Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974''

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* 1931 births 2013 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ipswich People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Commanders of the Order of the British Empire UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 Ernle family Suffolk Regiment officers {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1930s-stub