Thomas Lascelles Isa Shandon Valiant Iremonger (14 March 1916 – 13 May 1998) was a British Conservative Party politician. The son of Colonel Harold Iremonger and his wife Julia Quarry, he was educated at

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and

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, where he gained a sailing

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. Iremonger then worked as a District Officer in the Colonial Administrative Service in the Western Pacific. During

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, he served with the

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(RNVR), and joined the New Zealand Navy in 1942, being commissioned the following year. He was an editor, author, journalist and

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underwriter, and worked as a public relations officer and for Conservative Central Office. A barrister, he was called to the Bar by

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. He served as a councillor on Chelsea Borough Council 1953. Iremonger contested Birmingham Northfield in 1950. He was elected Member of Parliament for Ilford North at the 1954 by-election, and served until 1974 when he was defeated by Labour's Millie Miller in the October election of that year. In 1978 he stood in the

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, after Miller had died, as 'Conservative Independent Democrat', coming fifth. He gained 19,843 votes in both the

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and October 1974 general elections, winning the former and losing the latter. He married Lucille D'Oyen Parks, who later became a successful writer and broadcaster, in 1939. She died in 1989. They had one daughter. Iremonger was a cousin of

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References

*''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', 1955, 1966 and October 1974 *
Obituary of Tom Iremonger, The Independent, 26 May 1998

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