Sir Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key (26 April 1907 – 5 January 1981) was a British

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politician. He was

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for Hastings from 1945 until his retirement in 1970. The son of Captain Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key, C.B., M.V.O., of

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, Hampshire by his wife Florence (née Wigram), Cooper-Key was educated at the

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, and Dartmouth. He served in the

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during the

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, and alongside his later political career was a governor and committee member of the

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and director of

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Ltd, the Aberdeen Investment Trust, and Price Brothers Ltd. He was created a

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in 1960. On 11 January 1941 he married Hon. Lorna Peggy Vyvyan Harmsworth (24 October 1920 – 18 June 2014), elder daughter of the 2nd Viscount Rothermere. They had two sons and two daughters; the second – but only surviving – son, (Kevin) Esmond Peter (1943–1985), married Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, third daughter of the 6th Earl Howe, whose daughter by her second husband, property magnate and scion of baronets

John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 14 July 1947) is a property developer and former Chairman of the Watermark Group, son of Sir Richard Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baronet, and Nancy Moireach Malcolmson. Personal life He married ...

, is the actress

Isabella Calthorpe Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 3 March 1980) is an English socialite, actress and model. Early life Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Calthorpe, known by intimates as Bellie, was born on 3 March 1980 in Royal Hampshire ...

. He lived at Burnt Wood,

Battle, East Sussex Battle is a small town and civil parish in the local government district of Rother in East Sussex, England. It lies south-east of London, east of Brighton and east of Lewes. Hastings is to the south-east and Bexhill-on-Sea to the south. Batt ...

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* 1907 births 1981 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 Knights Bachelor {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1900s-stub