Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth FCA (7 June 1928 – 29 March 2018) was a merchant banker and British Conservative Party politician.
[1] He set up a group of companies in the export and import trade in 1963 and travelled extensively in Ottawa, New York and Washington, developing these businesses.
[1] Dodsworth made presentations on behalf of the UK leasing Industry with the British Export Council in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Iran and India.
He was Director of a quoted Property Company for three years in the 1990s and worked with First International Shipping Corporation in the late 1990s.
In 1959 he was beaten at the safe-Labour Don Valley by Richard Kelley, and in 1964 he was defeated by Ted Leadbitter at The Hartlepools.
[1] He resigned as an MP in October 1979, on medical advice under severe pressure from a considerable proportion of his constituents.