Sir Park Goff, 1st Baronet, KC (12 Feb 1871 – 14 April 1939) was a barrister

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 and Conservative Party

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 politician in England

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Goff was knight

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ed in July 1918, and at the 1918 general election

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 he was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Cleveland

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. He had stood as a Coalition Conservative, and like others holding the "coalition coupon

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", he defeated the sitting Liberal Party

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 MP Herbert Samuel

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Goff was re-elected in 1922

United Kingdom general election, 1922

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, but the constituency remained a 3-way marginal seat, with Liberal, Conservative and Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 candidates all polling over 27% of the votes throughout the 1920s, and he lost in 1923

United Kingdom general election, 1923

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 to the Liberal candidate Sir Charles Walter Starmer

Charles Walter Starmer

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. Goff regained the seat at the 1924 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1924

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, but was defeated again at the 1929 election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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, this time by the Labour candidate William Thomas Mansfield.

Goff did not stand again in Cleveland, but at the 1931 election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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 he was elected as MP for Chatham

Chatham (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in Kent

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. He stood down from Parliament

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 at the 1935 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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He was appointed as a King's Counsel in 1925, and made a baronet

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 on 3 Mar 1936, of Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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. The title became extinct on his death in 1939.

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