Maurice Petherick

Maurice Petherick (5 October 1894 – 4 August 1985) [1] was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Penryn & Falmouth from 1931 to 1945, and as Financial Secretary to the War Office, briefly, in 1945.

In October 1939, he was recommissioned to the General List Army, as a Captain and promoted to Temporary Major.

Having contested the parliamentary seat of Penryn & Falmouth in 1929, as a Conservative,[3][4] he was elected as MP in that division in the General Elections of 1931[5][6] and 1935[7] He was one of the MPs, who, in 1945, opposed the Yalta agreement, because of the treatment of Poland.

[8] He was Financial Secretary to the War Office from 26 May 1945 to 4 August 1945, in the "Caretaker Government".

In the 1945 General Election, he was defeated by the Labour candidate, Evelyn King.