Reginald Patrick Ground, QC

Queen's Counsel

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 (born 9 August 1932) is a British

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 Conservative

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 politician.

He served as a councillor on the London Borough of Hammersmith from 1968 to 1971 representing Parson's Green ward, and later chaired the Fulham Society.

Ground stood as a candidate for the Feltham and Heston seat seven times between February 1974 and 1997, and was Member of Parliament

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 for the seat between 1983 and 1992, when he lost it to Labour Co-operative

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 candidate Alan Keen

Alan Keen

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