Tom Iremonger
Thomas Lascelles Isa Shandon Valiant Iremonger (14 March 1916 – 13 May 1998) was a British Conservative Party politician.
The son of Colonel
Iremonger contested Birmingham Northfield in 1950. He was elected Member of Parliament for Ilford North at the 1954 by-election, and served until 1974 when he was defeated by Labour's Millie Miller in the October election of that year. In 1978 he stood in the by-election, after Miller had died, as 'Conservative Independent Democrat', coming fifth.
He gained 19,843 votes in both the February and October 1974 general elections, winning the former and losing the latter.
He married Lucille D'Oyen Parks, who later became a successful writer and broadcaster, in 1939. She died in 1989. They had one daughter. Iremonger was a cousin of Anthony Eden.
References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1955, 1966 and October 1974
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
- Obituary of Tom Iremonger, The Independent, 26 May 1998
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