Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford

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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.

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

  1. ^ a b Kelly's Handbook 1977. Kelly's Directories. p. 1500.
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  4. ^ "No. 50396". The London Gazette. 10 January 1986. p. 427.
  5. ^ "No. 50887". The London Gazette. 10 April 1987. p. 4809.
  6. ^ a b "Wrekin's former MP Lord Trafford dies at 57". Shropshire Star (First edition). 16 September 1989. p. 1.

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Preceded by
The Wrekin
1970February 1974
Succeeded by