Donald Kaberry, Baron Kaberry of Adel, TD

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 (18 August 1907 – 13 March 1991), known as Sir Donald Kaberry, 1st Baronet, from 1960 to 1983, was a Conservative Party

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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Kaberry was educated at Leeds Grammar School

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 and became a solicitor ( a partner in Ford and Warren, Leeds) and company director. He served as a councillor on Leeds City Council

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 1930-50, except for a period during World War II

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 when he enlisted in the Royal Artillery

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 and commanded a battery at Dunkirk, receiving a Mention in Despatches.The citation at National Archives indicates that the decoration was a Militiary Cross for "...a courageous example of calm leadership to all ranks." After the war he was, as lieutenant-colonel, president of the military governing board at Hamburg

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Kaberry was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Leeds North West

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 from 1950 to 1983, preceding Dr. Keith Hampson

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. He was a member of the Speaker

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's panel of chairmen in the House of Commons

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 and an assistant government whip

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 from 1952 to 1955 and parliamentary secretary

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 at the Board of Trade

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 1955. He served as Conservative Party Vice-Chairman Organisation, 1955-61, and chairman of the Association of Conservative Clubs in 1961. He was created a Baronet, of Adel cum Eccup in the City of Leeds, in 1960, and on his retirement from the House of Commons in 1983 he was made a life peer

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 as Baron Kaberry of Adel, of Adel

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 in the City of Leeds

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Lord Kaberry of Adel was injured in the IRA bombing of London's Carlton Club

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 in June 1990 and died in March 1991, aged 83. The life barony became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Christopher.

He appears as a character in The Long Walk to Finchley

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, on Margaret Thatcher's early career - he is played by Oliver Ford Davies

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-Biography:From the King's School, Canterbury, he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society . He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award in 1990 for Best Actor in a New Play for Racing Demon...

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