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William David Mudd (2 June 1933 – 28 April 2020) was a British politician. Mudd was born in
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, in June 1933. He was educated at
Truro Cathedral School Truro Cathedral School was a Church of England school for boys in Truro, Cornwall. An ancient school refounded in 1549 as the Truro Grammar School, after the establishment of Truro Cathedral in the last quarter of the 19th century it was respons ...
and was a member of the Tavistock Urban District Council from 1959 to 1961. He carried out his
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on merchant ships in the 1950s and, after working for a brief period as a stage manager in ballrooms all over the UK, he decided to take on a career in radio and television broadcast journalism. He was
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MP for Falmouth and Camborne from 1970 until 1992, when he stood down. It was considered a surprise when he decided to stand in his old constituency at the 2005 general election as an
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candidate. He came fifth with 2% of the vote. In the 1970s, Mudd was a member of
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as well as the Conservative Party. He was also a newsreader on
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in the 1970s and a Cornish bard. He died in
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, Plymouth, Devon in April 2020 at the age of 86.


References

*Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987, BBC news website


External links


Mr David Mudd: speeches in Parliament
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