Peter Freeman was a Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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Biography

He was elected as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Brecon and Radnorshire

Brecon and Radnorshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1929 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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, defeating the Conservative

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 MP Walter D'Arcy Hall

Walter D'Arcy Hall

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 by only 187 votes. When Labour split at the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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 over Ramsay MacDonald

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's formation of a National Government

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, D'Arcy Hall retook the seat with a majority of over 8,000.

Freeman unsuccessfully stood at the 1935 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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 in the Newport constituency

Newport (Monmouthshire) (UK Parliament constituency)

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, losing by 1,545 votes to the Conservative MP Reginald Clarry. When Clarry died in January 1945, Freeman did not contest the by-election on 17 May

Newport by-election, 1945

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. However, at the general election in July 1945

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, he took the seat with a majority of 9,091 votes over Clarry's Conservative successor Ronald McMillan Bell

Ronald Bell (UK politician)

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Freeman held the seat until his death in 1956 at the age of 67. The resulting Newport by-election, 1956

Newport by-election, 1956

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 was won by the Labour candidate Frank Soskice

Frank Soskice

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, the former Attorney General

Attorney General for England and Wales

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Newport author Mike Bloxsome has written a biography published by Y Lolfa

Y Lolfa

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 in 2004 entitled The Green Casanova: The Life Story of Peter Freeman that aims to be "entertaining and humourous." (sic)

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