Sir Jasper More (31 July 1907 – 28 October 1987) was a British Conservative Party politician, the son of Sir Thomas Jasper Mytton More (died 1947), a Shropshire landowner, and Lady Norah Browne, daughter of

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. He was knighted in 1979. More was educated at

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and

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, becoming a barrister, called by

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and

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in 1930. His career at the bar ended with the outbreak of

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. He was a civilian employee of the

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and the Ministry of Aircraft Production and Light Metals Control until 1942, was commissioned as an Army legal officer on the

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in 1943, and was in

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until 1945 and with the military government of the

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until 1946. In 1944, he married Clare Hope-Edwards, also a Shropshire landowner. They had no children. He was a landowner and farmer and chaired the

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branch of the

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1955–1960. He became a

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lor in 1958, and was later a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace. During the 1960s More joined the

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, and he was elected Member of Parliament for

Ludlow Ludlow ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is located south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford, on the A49 road (Great Britain), A49 road which bypasses the town. The town is near the conf ...

in a 1960

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, a seat he held until 1979, preceding Eric Cockeram. He introduced the Deer Act, 1963 to protect

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not kept in enclosed parks. More was made a government whip in February 1964, then become an opposition whip, and again for the government benches from 1970 to 1971, when he resigned in disagreement with the government's policy on the

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. He was still a member of the Monday Club in May 1975.Copping, Robert, ''The Monday Club - Crisis and After'', London, May 1975, p. 25. More was politically unambitious, gaining his whip posts largely through conscientious attendance. He principally devoted himself to life as a country squire. He authored several books, including ''The Saving of Income Tax, Surtax and Death Duties'', ''The Land of Italy'', and the ''Shell Guide to English Villages''.

References

Review of The Saving of Income Tax, Surtax and Death Duties
*''Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974'' *

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