John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, Baron Reigate, (2 February 1905 – 26 January 1995), known as Sir John Vaughan-Morgan, Bt, between 1960 and 1970, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Family and early life

Vaughan-Morgan was the younger son of Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan, an

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officer and Conservative member of parliament. His great-uncle was the

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politician Octavius Vaughan Morgan. He was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford.

Career

In 1928 he entered politics when he was elected to Chelsea Borough Council in

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, and was chairman of East Fulham Conservative Association, the constituency previously represented by his father, from 1935 to 1938. In 1940 he married Emily Cross of

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. The

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had broken out in 1939, and shortly after his marriage Vaughan-Morgan enlisted in the

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. He spent the next five years in continuous active service outside the United Kingdom, ending the war as a staff officer for the 21st Army Group. After the war he was elected to the

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to represent

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in 1946, remaining on the council until 1952. At the 1950 general election he was elected to the

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for

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in Surrey, holding the seat for twenty years until his retirement at the 1970 election. In 1957, he was

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, and a Minister of State at the Board of Trade from 1957 to 1959. Following the 1959 general election he returned to the backbenches.

Honours and arms

He was created a

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, of Outwood in the County of Surrey, in the

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1960 "for political and public services", and was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1961

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. Following his retirement from the Commons, he was created a life peer as Baron Reigate, of Outwood in the County of Surrey on 2 July 1970. A director of a number of companies based in the

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, he served as Master of the

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in 1970. He was also Chairman of the Board of

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from 1963 to 1974. in 1971 he was made an honorary freeman of the

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. He died one week before his 90th birthday.

References

Sources

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External links

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Catalogue of the Reigate papers held at LSE Archives
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughan-Morgan, John 1905 births 1995 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

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 who were granted peerages Members of London County Council Members of Chelsea Metropolitan Borough Council People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Welsh Guards officers Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 Life peers created by Elizabeth II