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Charles Fletcher Fletcher-Cooke, QC (5 May 1914 – 24 February 2001) was a British politician.
Fletcher-Cooke was educated at Malvern College and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he was president of the Cambridge Union in 1936. He became a barrister and was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1938, later becoming a Queen's Counsel. He served in the RNVR during World War II and was a legal advisor to the British Government at the Danube Conference in 1948.
Originally a Labour Party candidate, Fletcher-Cooke contested the East Dorset seat in 1945, but lost. He joined the Conservative Party, and was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Darwen at the 1951 general election, which he represented until the 1983 general election, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes.
Fletcher-Cooke was a junior Home Office minister from 1961 to 1963, a delegate to the Consultative Assembly of the European Council and a Member of the European Parliament from 1977 to 1979.
His elder brother, Sir John Fletcher-Cooke, was MP for Southampton Test from 1964 to 1966.
References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 & 1979
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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William Robert Stanley PrescottMember of Parliament for Darwen
1951–1983Constituency abolished: see
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