Geoffrey Kelsall Peto (8 September 1878 – 8 January 1956) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP). In business, he became a director of the industrial firm Morgan Crucible Company. At the 1923 general election, he stood unsuccessfully in the Louth constituency in

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. The following year, in the 1924 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament for Frome in

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, but lost the seat in the general election of 1929. Peto was returned to the

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at the 1931 general election for the Bilston constituency in

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and retired from

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at the 1935 election. During this period, he acted as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Walter Runciman, the

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. In 1938, Peto served as a member of the Runciman Mission to Czechoslovakia. He was married to Pauline and they had one child. Charles Tennyson (civil servant) dedicated a book to him and their long friendship.Poems of Lord Tennyson, Collins, 1954

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* 1878 births 1956 deaths People educated at Summer Fields School People from Bilston Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1931–1935 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1870s-stub