Richard Lionel Tufnell (10 December 1896 – 1 October 1956) was a
Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Richard Tufnell was son of
Edward Tufnell, Member of Parliament for
South East Essex, and his wife Ellen Bertha Gubbins. His grandfather was the civil servant and educationalist
Edward Carleton Tufnell
Edward Carleton Tufnell (27 October 1806, Marylebone, London (then part of Middlesex) – 3 July 1886 Belgravia, London ) was an English civil servant and educationist.
Education
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, gaini ...
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[Sources in British Political History 1900-1951, vol. 4: A Guide to the Private Papers of Members of Parliament: L-Z, Chris Cook, Macmillan, p. 212]
He was elected as the
member of parliament for
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a List of cities in the United Kingdom, city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 Unit ...
at a
by-election in 1934, following the
ennoblement
Ennoblement is the conferring of nobility—the induction of an individual into the noble class. Currently only a few kingdoms still grant nobility to people; among them Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Vatican. Depending on time and reg ...
of the Conservative MP
Sir George Newton as
Baron Eltisley.
Tufnell retained the seat at the
1935 general election, but ten years later at the
1945 general election, he lost his seat to
Arthur Symonds
Arthur Leslie Symonds, OBE (2 October 1910 – 25 February 1960) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He grew up in Cambridge and was educated at the Perse School and Jesus College, Cambridge, before moving to Cornwall, where ...
of the
Labour Party.
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1896 births
1956 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1931–1935
UK MPs 1935–1945
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