Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, Baron Broxbourne PC

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, TD

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, QC

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, Bt.

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 (13 April 1910 – 22 January 1992), known as Sir Derek Walker-Smith, Bt., from 1960 to 1983, was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician.

The son of Sir Jonah Walker-Smith (1874-1964), Walker-Smith was educated at Rossall School

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

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. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Middle Temple

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 in 1934. He was vice-chairman of the Inns of Court

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 Conservative and Unionist Society and was made Queen's Counsel

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 in 1955.

Walker-Smith was Member of Parliament

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 for Hertford

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 from 1945 to 1955, and East Hertfordshire

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 from 1955 to 1983. He was vice-chair of the 1922 Committee

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 1951-55. He held ministerial positions, including Economic Secretary to the Treasury

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 (1956-57), at the Board of Trade

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 (1955-56 and 1957), and Health (1957-59).

Walker-Smith was created a Baronet, of Broxbourne in the County of Hertford, in 1960. On 21 September 1983, he was elevated to a life peerage as Baron Broxbourne, of Broxbourne in the County of Hertfordshire

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. The life barony became extinct on his death in 1992 while he was succeeded in the hereditary baronetcy by his son Jonah.