Alfred Arthur Hinchcliffe Denville (27 January 1876-23 March 1955) was an English

England

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 actor, theatre impresario and Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician.

Denville, an actor by trade, ran one of the UK's leading repertory

Repertory

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 companies. In 1924 Denville founded Denville Hall

Denville Hall

Denville Hall is a retirement home for professional actors, situated in Northwood, Hillingdon, London, which was designed by Founded in 1925 as a charity for actors by Alfred Denville, impresario, actor-manager and MP, he dedicated the Hall to the acting profession, in memory of his son Jack, who...

, a retirement home

Retirement home

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 for actors in Northwood, London that is still in operation.

As a politician Denville was elected as the Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central seat

Newcastle upon Tyne Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from Sir Charles Trevelyan

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet

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 in the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

The United Kingdom general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It was also the last election, and the only one under universal suffrage, where one party received an absolute majority of the votes cast.The 1931 general election was the...

 and held the seat until he was defeated in 1945. For a time he was associated with the far right

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 of the Conservative Party, and during the 1930s was a leading member of the Friends of National Spain, which stressed support for Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

 and anti-communism

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