Major Sir John Dearman Birchall TD (26 September 1875 – 6 January 1941) was a British soldier and

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politician. Son of Dearman Birchall (1828-1897), he was elected as

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(MP) for Leeds North East at the 1918 general election, and held his seat in the

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for 22 years until he resigned on 8 February 1940 through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

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