Albert Eric Bechervaise (15 July 1884 – 20 December 1969) was a British politician. Bechervaise was educated at Mayville Road School in his hometown of

Leytonstone Leytonstone ( ) is an area in East London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It adjoins Wanstead to the north-east, Forest Gate to the south-east, Stratford to the south-west, Leyton to the west, and Walthamstow to the nor ...

, before becoming what he described as a "piano worker". By 1927, he was instead working as a co-operative insurance agent and lecturer. He joined the Labour Party, and served on Leyton

Urban District Council In England and Wales, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected urban district council (UDC), which shared local government responsibilities with a county council. ...

from 1924 to 1926, then Leyton Borough Council until 1965, including a term as Mayor of Leyton in 1930. Bechervaise unsuccessfully stood in

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at the

1931 United Kingdom general election The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday, 27 October 1931. It saw a landslide election victory for the National Government, a three-party coalition which had been formed two months previously after the collapse of the secon ...

, and in Leyton East at the

1935 United Kingdom general election The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November 1935. It resulted in a second (though reduced) landslide victory for the three-party National Government, which was led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party a ...

, but won the latter seat at the

1945 United Kingdom general election The 1945 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 5 July 1945. With World War II, the Second World War still fresh in voters’ minds, the opposition Labour Party (UK), Labour Party under the leadership of Clement Attlee won a lan ...

. He stood down in 1950, but served on the

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from 1954 until 1960.

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* 1884 births 1969 deaths UK MPs 1945–1950 Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People from Leytonstone {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub