Sir John Anthony Langford-Holt (30 June 1916 – 23 July 1993) was a British

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Member of Parliament for

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from 1945 to 1983.

Biography

He was born in Studdale,

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on 30 June 1916, son of Ernest and Christine Langford-Holt, and like most of his family educated at

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; his grandfather, George Jones Holt, had served as the

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. During the

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, he was a pilot, first in the

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and later with the

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. During his political career, his positions included serving on the Parliamentary Science Committee, the Estimates Committee, the Expenditure Committee and the Select Committee, on Defence. During Churchill's later years, he was entrusted by the Tory Whips to look after Churchill himself. He was knighted in 1962. He was married four times, firstly to

Elisabeth Neustadtl Elisabeth Charlotte Marie Rivers-Bulkeley (30 April 1924 – 19 December 2006) was a stockbroker. Born in Austria, she lived most of her life in the United Kingdom. She was one of the first ten women to become a member of the London Stock Exch ...

in 1943. The couple were divorced in 1951, and she married Major Robert Rivers-Bulkeley. In 1953, he married Flora Innes Stuart, daughter of Ian St Clair Stuart,Who's Who 1968, A. & C. Black, 1968, p. 1754 but was dissolved in 1969, after which he married Maxine Veale in 1971. After the couple divorced in 1982, he married for the last time to Irene Kerr. He died in London on 23 July 1993, aged 77.

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