Peter Bessell

Peter Bessell

Peter Joseph Bessell (24 August 1921 – 27 November 1985) was a British Liberal Party politician, and Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall from 1964 to 1970.

At the 1959 general election, he was the Liberal candidate in the Bodmin constituency, but lost to the sitting Conservative MP Sir Douglas Marshall. He stood again at the 1964 general election, ousting Marshall with a majority of over 3,000. He held the seat at the 1966 general election, despite a strong challenge from the Conservative John Gorst.

Bessell did not contest the 1970 general election, when the Liberal candidate Paul Tyler lost Bodmin to the Conservative Robert Hicks.

In the 1960s Peter Bessell was a member of Mebyon Kernow as well as the Liberal Party. [ [http://www.mebyonkernow.org/ Mebyon Kernow] ]

He was a prosecution witness at the trial of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe for attempted murder in 1979, the famous Rinkagate case.

References

* [http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/edates.htm UK General Elections since 1832] at Keele University
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