John Albert Hay (24 November 1919 – 27 January 1998) was a British

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politician. Hay was born in Brighton, Sussex, to John Edward Hay (Mayor of Brighton 1953) and May Hollingdale. He was a brother to author Peter Thomas Hay. He was educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School. He served as a Sub-Lieutenant in the

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during

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and was invalided out. He married Beryl Found, the only daughter of Ret. Commander Herbert Found R.N. and Alice Found. They had two children, Victoria (b. 1949) and Richard (b. 1953). Their marriage ended in divorce. Hay worked as a solicitor practicing in Brighton and

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. He served as Chairman of the Young Conservatives 1947–49 and was elected to Parliament in 1950 as

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for Henley,

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. He became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade, 1951–55, and later served as Parliamentary Secretary to the

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from 1959 to 1963 under

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, where he introduced parking meters, and as the last

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from 1963 to 1964, whereupon the reorganisation of the Ministry of Defence, he became

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for the Army until the Labour Party won the October 1964 general election. Hay retired from politics and Parliament in 1974 and married Janet Spruce in 1975. They emigrated to

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and he died in

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in 1998.

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* 1919 births 1998 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 People educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School Royal Navy officers of World War II English solicitors Lords of the Admiralty 20th-century English lawyers English emigrants to Canada Politicians from Brighton Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1910s-stub