Sir Walter Ian Percival QC

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 (11 May 1921 – 4 April 1998), known as Ian Percival, was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician.

Percival was educated at Latymer Upper School

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 and St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was commissioned from Sandhurst

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 into The Buffs in 1941 and served in World War II

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 in North Africa

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 and Burma, attaining the rank of Major

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

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 in 1948, and a part-time economics professor. He served as a councillor on Kensington Borough Council 1952-59. He was made a Queen's Counsel

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 in 1963.

He stood unsuccessfully in the Battersea North constituency

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 at the 1951 general election

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 and again at the 1955 election

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. He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 for Southport

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 at the 1959 general election

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, holding the seat until he retired at the 1987 election

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. He was Solicitor General

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from 1979 to 1983.