Frederick Corfield

Sir Frederick Vernon Corfield PC QC (1 June 1915 – 25 August 2005) was a British Conservative politician and minister.

[2] He was educated firstly at Brockhurst Preparatory School [2] at Church Stretton and then at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

He received a second reading for his bill in February 1958, against government advice, and its general principles were incorporated in the Town and Country Planning Act of 1959.

[citation needed] Under Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home he held the position of Joint Parliamentary Secretary of Housing and Local Government (1962–4).

[6] After this retirement from the Commons, Corfield, who had become a member of the Queen's Counsel in 1972, returned to legal pursuits, becoming a Bencher of the Middle Temple and sat as Recorder of a County Court from 1979 to 1987.

[6] Corfield was author of the following legal works: On 10 August 1945 he married Elizabeth Mary Ruth Taylor,[8] at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton in London.