Sir Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook (12 June 1902 – 12 August 1970) was a Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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. He served as a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) from 1931 to 1945.

At the 1924 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1924

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, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Labour

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 held constituency of North Norfolk

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. He was defeated again by Labour's Noel Buxton at the 1929 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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, and at the by-election

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 in 1930 when Lady Noel-Buxton held the seat with a majority of only 139 votes after her husband's elevation to the peerage.

At the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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, Cook won the seat from Lady Noel-Buxton with a majority of nearly 7,000. He was re-elected at the 1935 election

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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He was knighted in 1937.

In the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1945

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, he was ousted by Labour's Edwin Gooch

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Thomas Cook was a member of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association and served on the Norfolk County Council. From 1930 to 1955 he ran the Norfolk Chronicle. He was county commissioner

Commissioner

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 for the Norfolk St John Ambulance Brigade and Master of the Glaziers' Company in London.

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