UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
This website is considered to be an archive in the public interest.

John Peyton

Born: 13 February 1919

Died: 22 November 2006

Baron Peyton of Yeovil - 1983

Member of Privy Council - 1970

husband of Diana Church

husband of Mary Cobbold

Eton College

Trinity College, Oxford (1937 -)

Inner Temple

Insurance Broker

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Power	June 1962	October 1964
Minister for Transport	June 1970	October 1970
Minister for Transport Industries	October 1970	March 1974

23 February 1950	Bristol Central	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,461	31.02
25 October 1951	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,701	46.84
26 May 1955	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,059	47.12
8 October 1959	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,771	46.71
15 October 1964	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,919	42.55
31 March 1966	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,664	43.17
18 June 1970	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,689	49.69
28 February 1974	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,955	41.53
10 October 1974	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,709	41.41
3 May 1979	Yeovil	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,321	47.92