Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford
In office 3 April 1987 – 16 September 1989 Life Peerage | |
Joseph Anthony Porteous Trafford, Baron Trafford of Falmer,
FRCP (20 July 1932 – 16 September 1989) was a British Conservative Party
politician and physician. He was usually known as Anthony Trafford, sometimes shortened to "Tony".
Trafford was son of physician Harold Trafford of
Hove, Sussex
. Lord and Lady Trafford had a son and a daughter.
- Hon. Mark Russell Trafford KC (b. 1966)
- Hon. Tanya Helen Trafford (b. 1968)
He was educated at
Fulbright Scholar
.
He returned to England to take up appointment as Senior Registrar at Guy's Hospital in 1963,[3] then became consultant physician at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in 1965, where he also became director of its artificial kidney unit. He was also director of a private banking company and became Pro-Chancellor of the University of Sussex.
At the
The Wrekin, but lost his seat in the February 1974 general election to Labour Party candidate Gerald Fowler
, whom he had defeated in 1970.
Trafford was on hospital duty at the time of the
Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation.[6]
He died as a patient at the Royal Sussex County Hospital after a short illness of lung cancer in September 1989, aged 57.[6]
References
- ^ a b Kelly's Handbook 1977. Kelly's Directories. p. 1500.
- ISBN 0-905649-99-0.
- ^ ISBN 0-7136-2635-6.
- ^ "No. 50396". The London Gazette. 10 January 1986. p. 427.
- ^ "No. 50887". The London Gazette. 10 April 1987. p. 4809.
- ^ a b "Wrekin's former MP Lord Trafford dies at 57". Shropshire Star (First edition). 16 September 1989. p. 1.
- Times Guide to the House of Commons February 1974
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages – Peerages beginning with "T" (part 2)[better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)