Sir Jonah Walker Walker-Smith (22 November 1874 – 23 February 1964)[1] was an engineer and a Conservative Party politician in England who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow-in-Furness from 1931, when he took it from Labour, until his defeat at the 1945 general election, when a Labour candidate took the seat.
[2] He was born at Watford, Hertfordshire,[3] son of John Jonah Smith, and educated privately and at King's College, London.
[3] He was successively City Engineer of Edinburgh; Director of Housing and Town Planning at the Local Government Board of Scotland; Consulting Engineer to the Road Board in Scotland; Director of Housing at the Ministry of Health from 1919 to 1925.
His granddaughter by Joan is Lavender Patten, Hong Kong's final British 'first lady'.
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