Samuel Vyvyan Trerice Adams (22 April 1900 – 13 August 1951), known as Vyvyan Adams, was a British

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politician. He was the

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(MP) for

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from 1931'' The International Who's Who 1943-44''. 8th edition.

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, London, 1943, p. 5. to 1945, when he was defeated by the swing to Labour. He stood unsuccessfully in the Fulham East constituency in 1950. He had been adopted for the

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Conservative seat of

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early in 1951, but died later that year. His ''Times'' obituary was headed ''Intellectual Honesty and Independence''. He was opposed to appeasement of Mussolini (in Abyssinia) and Hitler, and was one of the two Conservative MPs (with

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) to oppose the Munich agreement with Hitler in 1938. He was opposed to the death penalty.

Personal life

He was educated at

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, Haileybury, and

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(MA). He married in 1925 Mary Campin, who was later a television producer and programme director. He was a barrister, and was a Major in the

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of the British Army in World War II. In 1951 he drowned while swimming at

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Church Cove near Helston, Cornwall, a place noted for strong currents. Their daughter Sally, then 14, helped her mother but was unable to save her father.

Publications

He wrote several books, the first three under the pseudonym ''Watchman'': *''Right Honourable Gentlemen'' (1939) *''What of the Night?'' (1940) *''Churchill: Architect of Victory'' (1940) *''A Letter to a Young Politician'' (1946) *''The British Co-operative Movement'' (1948)

References and sources

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