Sir Noel Barré Goldie KC (26 December 1882 – 4 June 1964) was a British judge and Conservative Party politician. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, qualifying Bachelor of Law in 1905.

Judicial career

He worked in chambers until the outbreak of the First World War, when he fought in Belgium and France as a Staff Captain in the Royal Artillery. He resumed his career after the war and took silk in 1928. He was made a Bencher in 1935 and a Reader in 1958. The following year he was appointed Recorder of Burnley, a position he held until he was appointed

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in 1935, a position he filled until 1956.

Parliamentary career

At the 1929 general election, Goldie stood as the Conservative candidate for the borough of Warrington in Lancashire, defending the seat vacated by Alec Cunningham-Reid, who was standing instead in Southampton. However, in a three-way contest, Goldie was defeated by

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, the borough's former Labour Party MP who regained the seat with over 50% of the votes. At the next general election, in 1931, the governing Labour Party was split, and its leader

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( Prime Minister since 1929) having broken with his party to form a

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with Conservative support. Labour lost most of its seats, including Warrington, where Goldie took 56.2% of the votes in a two-contest with Dukes. Goldie was returned again to the House of Commons at the 1935 general election, and held the seat until his defeat in the Labour landslide at the

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. He was the last Conservative MP for the Warrington constituency, which thereafter returned Labour MPs until its abolition in 1983. He was

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in the King's Birthday Honours in June 1945.

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* 1882 births 1964 deaths People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 Knights Bachelor Recorder (judge) 20th-century English judges {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub