Sir Roger John Edward Conant, 1st Baronet,
CVO,
DL (28 May 1899 – 30 March 1973) was a
Conservative Party politician in the
United Kingdom
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. He was a
Member of Parliament (MP) for more than 25 years between 1931 and 1959.
Born in
Kensington
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,
London
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, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the
Chesterfield constituency at the
1929 general election, but won the seat at the
1931 general election when the
Labour Party split over
Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The first two of his governments belonged to the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, where he led ...
's formation of the
National Government.
He lost the Chesterfield seat at the
1935 general election, but after the retirement in 1937 of
Stanley Baldwin
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, he was returned to
Parliament
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at a
by-election
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A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...
for Baldwin's
Bewdley
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constituency in
Worcestershire
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. He held the seat until its abolition for the
1950 general election, when he was elected as MP for
Rutland and Stamford.
Appointed a
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
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(CVO) in the
1953 Coronation Honours
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The rec ...
, Conant was created a
baronet
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on 30 June 1954.
Sir Roger retired from the
House of Commons
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at the
1959 general election. He died in 1973 in
Chelsea.
Arms
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1899 births
1973 deaths
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Roger
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Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Deputy lieutenants of Rutland
People from Rutland
UK MPs 1931–1935
UK MPs 1935–1945
UK MPs 1945–1950
UK MPs 1950–1951
UK MPs 1951–1955
UK MPs 1955–1959
Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955
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