Cyril Walter Dumpleton JP (25 June 1897 – 1 October 1966)[1] was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the St Albans division of Hertfordshire from 1945 to 1950.
[2] During World War I, Dumpleton served with the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force,[2] and later became manager of a printing and publishing business.
At the 1945 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as the MP for St Albans,[3] defeating the sitting Conservative MP John Grimston.
[4][5] The 1935 and 1945 results were not directly comparable, because the Liberal Party contested the seat in 1945 but not 1935; but Dumpleton's 3.7% majority was vulnerable, and he was defeated at the 1950 general election,[6] when Grimston re-took the seat with a majority of 4.5%.
He worked as a public relations executive with the Colonial Development Corporation from 1950 to 1962,[2] and died at Dawlish in Devon in 1966, aged 69.