Edward Marjoribanks was a barrister and Conservative Party

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 politician

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 in the United Kingdom

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At the 1929 general election

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, he was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Eastbourne

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 in East Sussex

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, and held the seat at the 1931 general election

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. However he died in office on 2 April 1932, having committed suicide aged only 32, having been jilted for a second time. He had just completed the first volume of a planned three-volume account of the trials of Sir Edward Carson; his last chapter being the Archer-Shee case. The work was finished by another author. At the resulting Eastbourne by-election, 1932

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, the Conservative candidate John Slater

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John Slater was an English Conservative Party politician.In 1932, Slater was elected as Member of Parliament for Eastbourne in East Sussex, in an unopposed by-election on 29th March following the death of Conservative MP Edward Marjoribanks.Slater held the seat for less than three years, dying...

 was returned unopposed.

His half-brother was Quintin Hogg

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Books

He wrote a biography of Sir Edward Marshall Hall published under the following titles:

• The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1929.
• Trials of Marshall Hall, Penguin, 1989. ISBN 0140115560

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