Sir Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes KBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (19 January 1901 – 18 April 1986) was a British Conservative

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 politician.

Raikes was the son of Henry St. John Digby Raikes, eldest son of Henry Cecil Raikes

Henry Cecil Raikes

Henry Cecil Raikes PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Chairman of Ways and Means between 1874 and 1880 and served as Postmaster General between 1886 and 1891.-Background and education:...

. His mother was Annie Lucinda (née Mackinnon). Educated at Westminster School

Westminster School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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, he unsuccessfully contested Ilkeston

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 in 1924

United Kingdom general election, 1924

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 and 1929

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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 before being elected for South East Essex

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 in 1931

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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. During World War II

World War II

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 he served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force

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.

In 1945

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 Raikes was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree. In 1950

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, 1951

United Kingdom general election, 1951

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, and 1955

United Kingdom general election, 1955

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 he was elected for Liverpool Garston

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.

He left office in 1957 and was replaced by Richard Martin Bingham

Richard Martin Bingham

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 in a by-election.

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