Sir Walter Sydney Liddall

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(2 March 1884 – 24 February 1963) was the

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(MP) for

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from 1931 to 1945. Born in

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, he was educated at

De Aston School De Aston School is a mixed secondary school with academy status in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England. It also has a sixth form but no longer has a boarding house as of 2020, following the country's decision to leave the European Union, due t ...

at Market Rasen. He was a local manager for the Scunthorpe Savings Bank and eventually became the chairman. Liddall died aged 78 in

Scunthorpe Scunthorpe () is an industrial town and unparished area in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England of which it is the main administrative centre. Scunthorpe had an estimated total population of 82,334 in 2016. A pre ...

. He was awarded

in the 1937 Coronation Honours for political and public services.

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* 1884 births 1963 deaths People from Boston, Lincolnshire People educated at De Aston School Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 Politics of Lincoln, England Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Knights Bachelor {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub