- Evelyn King (UK politician)
Evelyn Mansfield King (
30 May 1907 –14 April 1994 ) was a British member of parliament for both the Labour Party and then the Conservative Party. He was a long-standing member of thePrimrose League , and a Vice-President of theConservative Monday Club from about 1974 until his death.The son of Harry Percy King and Winifred Elizabeth "née" Paulet, King was educated at
Cheltenham College and King's College, Cambridge University (where he was the university's correspondent to the "Sunday Times", 1928-30). He then entered theInner Temple , London. He was Assistant Master atBedford School ,Clayesmore School, Craigend Park School,and 1930, d Headmaster and Warden ofClayesmore School , 1935-1950. He revitalised a financially failing Clayesmore, bringing with him some pupils from Craigend Park, and managing the school in an energetic and proactive way, putting it on the Headmasters' Conference List, and generally on the map. DuringWorld War II he served in theGloucestershire Regiment from 1940 and Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in 1941.King was originally Labour Party
Member of Parliament for Penryn and Falmouth from 1945 to 1950, and served asParliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Town and Country Planning 1947 to 1950. He contested Poole in 1950 but lost.King defected to the Conservative Party in 1951 and contested Southampton Itchen in 1959. In 1964, he stood in Dorset South and unseated Labour's Guy Barnett, who had gained the seat in a
by-election two years earlier. He was a member of parliamentary delegations toBermuda andWashington DC in 1946,Tokyo 1947,Cairo and theMiddle East 1967,Jordan and thePersian Gulf 1968,Kenya and theSeychelles 1969,Malta 1970 (leader), andMalawi 1971 (leader). He was a member of the Select Committee on Overseas Aid in 1971, and Chairman of the Food Committee 1971-73.King served until he retired in 1979.References
*"Times Guide to the House of Commons", 1951, 1966 & October 1974, London
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*"Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1979", 160th edition, London.
*Black, A & C, "Who's Who", London. (Various editions).Publications
* King, Evelyn, with J. C. Trewin, "Printer to The House" - biography of
Luke Hansard . London, 1952.
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