UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 12 August 1908

Died: 24 May 2007

Baron Renton - 1979

Knighted

Member of Privy Council - July 1962

husband of Claire Cicely Duncan

Oundle

University College, Oxford

Lincoln's Inn (1933 -)

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power	December 1955	January 1957
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Power	January 1957	January 1958
Under Secretary of State, Home Office	January 1958	June 1961
Minister of State, Home Office	June 1961	July 1962
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords	1982	1988

5 July 1945	Huntingdonshire	National Liberal Party	15,389	50.10
23 February 1950	Huntingdonshire	National Liberal and Conservative Party	18,551	51.40
25 October 1951	Huntingdonshire	National Liberal and Conservative Party	20,845	57.37
26 May 1955	Huntingdonshire	National Liberal and Conservative Party	20,609	58.42
8 October 1959	Huntingdonshire	National Liberal and Conservative Party	20,254	53.83
15 October 1964	Huntingdonshire	National Liberal and Conservative Party	20,320	51.10
31 March 1966	Huntingdonshire	National Liberal and Conservative Party	20,504	49.19
1968 Rt Hon Sir David Renton joins the Conservative party on the dissolution of the National Liberal party.
18 June 1970	Huntingdonshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,398	54.72
28 February 1974	Huntingdon	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,042	44.58
10 October 1974	Huntingdon	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,989	45.07