UK Elections Info

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Lord Robert Balniel

Born: 5 March 1927

Died: 18 March 2023

Baron Balniel - 8 March 1940

Baron Balniel of Pitcorthie - 24 January 1975

12th Earl of Balcarres - 13 December 1975

29th Earl of Crawford - 13 December 1975

5th Baron Wigan - 13 December 1975

Knighted - 29 November 1996

Member of Privy Council - 4 February 1972

husband of Ruth Beatrice Meyer-Bechtler

Eton College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Minister of State for Defence	23 June 1970	5 November 1972	(Reshuffled)
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	5 November 1972	4 March 1974	(Dismissed)

26 May 1955	Hertford	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,014	56.79
8 October 1959	Hertford	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,418	58.17
15 October 1964	Hertford	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,134	46.23
31 March 1966	Hertford	Conservative & Unionist Party	32,302	50.62
18 June 1970	Hertford	Conservative & Unionist Party	36,494	52.58
28 February 1974	Welwyn & Hatfield	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,581	39.85
10 October 1974	Welwyn & Hatfield	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,819	41.81