Anthony Fell (politician)
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Sir Anthony Fell was a British
Conservative Party
politician. He sat in the House of Commons for most the years from 1951 to 1983.
He was first elected at the 1951 general election
as Member of Parliament
(MP) for Great Yarmouth
, a seat which had been held at the start of the 20th century by his grandfather Sir Arthur Fell
. Yarmouth returned him to the Commons at three further elections. At the 1966 general election
, Labour Party
's Hugh Gray
won the seat, with a majority of 797.
Fell regained the seat at the 1970 general election
, with a majority of over 3,000, and retained it through three further elections until he retired, aged 69, at the 1983 general election
. He was knighted in 1982. His successor was Michael Carttiss
, another Conservative.
Fell was a member of the Conservative Monday Club
.
United Kingdom
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Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
politician. He sat in the House of Commons for most the years from 1951 to 1983.
He was first elected at the 1951 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1951
The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held eighteen months after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats...
as Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
(MP) for Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
Great Yarmouth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
, a seat which had been held at the start of the 20th century by his grandfather Sir Arthur Fell
Arthur Fell
Sir Arthur Fell was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician. After a notorious legal case in 1906 where a biased judge dismissed an election petition against him, Fell sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1922 for Great Yarmouth...
. Yarmouth returned him to the Commons at three further elections. At the 1966 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1966
The 1966 United Kingdom general election on 31 March 1966 was called by sitting Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson's decision to call an election turned on the fact that his government, elected a mere 17 months previously in 1964 had an unworkably small majority of only 4 MPs...
, Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
's Hugh Gray
Hugh Gray
Hugh Gray was a British Labour Party politician and lecturer at the University of London.He was the Member of Parliament for Yarmouth from 1966 to 1970, when he lost to the Conservative Anthony Fell.- External links :...
won the seat, with a majority of 797.
Fell regained the seat at the 1970 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1970
The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was held on 18 June 1970, and resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader Edward Heath, who defeated the Labour Party under Harold Wilson. The election also saw the Liberal Party and its new leader Jeremy Thorpe lose half their...
, with a majority of over 3,000, and retained it through three further elections until he retired, aged 69, at the 1983 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1983
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945...
. He was knighted in 1982. His successor was Michael Carttiss
Michael Carttiss
Michael Reginald Harry Carttiss is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth from 1983 until his defeat in 1997 by Labour's Anthony Wright....
, another Conservative.
Fell was a member of the Conservative Monday Club
Conservative Monday Club
The Conservative Monday Club is a British pressure group "on the right-wing" of the Conservative Party.-Overview:...
.