Alfred Hall-Davis
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Alfred George Fletcher Hall-Davis (21 June 1924 - 20 November 1979) was a British
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 Conservative Party
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 politician.

Hall-Davis was educated at Terra Nova School, Birkdale
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 and Clifton College
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, Bristol
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. He was a director of brewery, hotel and other companies and served on the Conservative Party executive.

Hall-Davis contested St Helens
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St Helens was a county constituency in the county of Lancashire, England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

 in 1950 and Chorley
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 in 1951 and 1955.
He was Member of Parliament
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 for Morecambe and Lonsdale from 1964 until 1979, preceding Mark Lennox-Boyd
Mark Lennox-Boyd
Sir Mark Alexander Lennox-Boyd is a British Conservative politician and a son of the 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton.Lennox-Boyd was MP for Morecambe and Lonsdale from 1979 to 1983, and the Morecambe and Lunesdale from 1983 until his defeat by Labour's Geraldine Smith in 1997...

. From 1973 to 1974, he was an assistant government whip.

Hall-Davis died at the age of 55, six months after leaving the House of Commons
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