Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson, 1st Baronet (4 October 1880–18 July 1965) was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician and public servant.

During the First World War, Sanderson was Controller of Trench Warfare, National Shell

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 Filling Factories and Stores at the Ministry of Munitions.

He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for the Darwen constituency

Darwen (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1922 general election

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, but was defeated at the 1923 general election

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 by the Liberal

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 Frederick Hindle

Frederick Hindle (1877-1953)

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. He regained the seat from Hindle in 1924

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, but lost it again at the 1929 general election

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 to the future Liberal leader, Herbert Samuel

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.

Sanderson did not contest Darwen again, and at the 1931 general election

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 he was returned to Parliament

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 as MP for Ealing

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. He held that seat until its abolition for the 1945 general election

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, when was elected in the new Ealing East

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 constituency. He retired from the House of Commons

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 at the 1950 general election

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Sanderson married Edith Amy Wing in 1904 and had sons Frank and Derek. He was created a Baronet

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, of Malling Deanery in South Malling in the County of Sussex, in the 1920 Birthday Honours for his wartime work.

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