Dennis Forwood Vosper, Baron Runcorn TD PC (2 January 1916 – 20 January 1968) was a British Conservative Party politician. Educated at The Leas, Hoylake, Marlborough College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he first worked with Wilson, Vosper & Coltart, Ships Store & Export Merchants, in Liverpool. He was commissioned into the

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( Territorial Army) in April 1939 and served until the 1950s, reaching the rank of Major. He was elected as the

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(MP) for

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, Cheshire in 1950, holding the seat until 1964. He held office as Conservative Whip, 1950–1954; as a

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, 1951–1954; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, October 1954 – January 1957;

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, 1957, from which he resigned owing to illness in September 1957. He was Leader of the Parliamentary Delegation to West Indies, 1958. He returned to ministerial office as Joint Parliamentary

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, 1959–1960, as Minister of State for Home Affairs, 1960–1961; and as Secretary for Technical Co-operation, 1961–1963. He was appointed a

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in 1957 and was created a life peer on 20 April 1964 as Baron Runcorn, of

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in the

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. He died in January 1968 aged 52.

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1916 births 1968 deaths Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge British Army personnel of World War II Cheshire Regiment officers Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies

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