Sir Dryden Brook (25 August 1884 – 30 January 1971) was a
Labour Party politician in the
United Kingdom
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, and a
Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955.
Brook was a wool merchant in Halifax. He served as a Labour Party member of Halifax Borough Council from 1940 until 1968.
In the Labour landslide at the
1945 general election, Brook was elected as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Halifax, unseating the
Conservative
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MP
Gilbert Gledhill with a majority of over 10,000 votes. He held the seat until the
1955 general election, when the Conservative
Maurice Macmillan
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won with a majority of 1,535.
Alderman Brook was
knighted
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in 1965.
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1884 births
1971 deaths
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1945–1950
UK MPs 1950–1951
UK MPs 1951–1955
Knights Bachelor
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