[2] He was re-elected in 1931[3] and 1935,[4] and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1945 election.
[5] In 1936, he won 7th place in the ballot for private member's bills,[6] and proposed to bring forward a Medical and Surgical Appliances (Advertisement) Bill.
[7] Duckworth married Alice Frances Hammond, a fifth-generation descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, in March 1927; they had three daughters.
The couple were divorced in February 1942, on the grounds of his wife's adultery in New York;[8] she married the American bandleader Benny Goodman; the following month.
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