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Peter Thorneycroft

Born: 26 July 1909, Dunstan, Staffordshire

Died: 4 June 1994

Baron Thorneycroft - 4 December 1967

Member of Privy Council - 30 October 1951

son of George Edward Mervyn Thorneycroft

son of Dorothy Hope Franklyn

husband of Sheila Wells Page

husband of Carla Maria Concetta Francesca Malagola, Contessa Cappi

Eton College

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Inner Temple

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of War Transport	May 1945	July 1945
President of the Board of Trade	30 October 1951	13 January 1957
Chancellor of the Exchequer	13 January 1957	6 January 1958
Minister for Aviation	27 July 1960	13 July 1962
Minister of Defence	13 July 1962	1 April 1964
Secretary of State for Defence	1 April 1964	16 October 1964

9 June 1938	Stafford	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,754	57.57
5 July 1945	Stafford	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,500	47.93
30 October 1945	Monmouth	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,092	52.67
23 February 1950	Monmouth	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,956	55.33
25 October 1951	Monmouth	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,475	55.59
26 May 1955	Monmouth	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,970	57.22
8 October 1959	Monmouth	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,422	57.02
15 October 1964	Monmouth	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,635	44.11
31 March 1966	Monmouth	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,654	47.27