George Arthur Victor Duckworth (3 January 1901 – 14 November 1986),[1] known as Arthur Duckworth, was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shrewsbury at the 1929 general election.[2] He was re-elected in 1931[3] and 1935,[4] and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1945 election.[5]

In 1936, he won 7th place in the ballot for private member's bills,[6] and proposed to bring forward a Medical and Surgical Appliances (Advertisement) Bill.[6]

He announced in April 1945 that he would not stand again at the next election.[7]

Personal life

Duckworth married Alice Frances Hammond, a fifth-generation descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, in March 1927; they had three daughters. The couple were divorced in February 1942, on the grounds of his wife's adultery in New York;[8] she married the American bandleader Benny Goodman the following month.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
  2. ↑ "No. 33508". The London Gazette. 21 June 1929. p. 4113.
  3. ↑ "No. 33769". The London Gazette. 6 November 1931. p. 7143.
  4. ↑ "No. 34223". The London Gazette. 26 November 1935. p. 7503.
  5. ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 452. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  6. 1 2 "Commons Ballot Private Members' Bills, Variety Of Subjects". The Times. London. 6 February 1936. pp. 14, col G.
  7. ↑ Thatcher, Margaret (10 December 1981). "Speech to the Shrewsbury Beaconsfield Club (centenary dinner)". Margaret Thatcher Foundation. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
  8. ↑ "M.P. Granted Decree Nisi". The Times. London. 17 February 1942. pp. 2, col D.
  9. ↑ "Goodman Is Wed to Alice Hammond". Nielsen Business Media (Billboard). 28 March 1942. pp. 5–. Retrieved 9 January 2019.


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