He had been adopted for the safe Conservative seat of Darwen early in 1951, but died later that year.

He was opposed to appeasement of Mussolini (in Abyssinia) and Hitler, and was one of the few Conservative MPs (with Leo Amery, Duff Cooper, Anthony Eden, Harold Nicolson and Winston Churchill) to oppose the Munich agreement with Hitler in 1938.

He was a barrister, and was a Major in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry of the British Army in World War II.

In 1951 he drowned while swimming at Gunwalloe Church Cove near Helston, Cornwall, a place noted for strong currents.

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