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Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers

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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Also Known As

Peter Smithers

Born: 9 December 1913

Died: 8 June 2006

Knighted - 1970

husband of Dojean Sayman

Education

Harrow School

Magdalen College, Oxford

Inner Temple   (1936 -)

Appointments

Elections fought

23 February 1950		Winchester	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,462	56.77
25 October 1951		Winchester	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,700	56.49
26 May 1955		Winchester	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,827	65.43
8 October 1959		Winchester	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,924	67.26
9 March 1964 Resignation of Peter Smithers on appointment as Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.