Santo Wayburn Jeger was a British

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 Labour Party

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 politician who served as a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) from 1945 until his death.

Jeger was educated at University College, Cardiff

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 and the London and St Mary's Hospital

Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry

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s. A doctor by profession, Jeger was a founder of the Socialist Medical Association. He served as a councillor on Shoreditch Borough Council

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 from 1925 and was Mayor

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 of the Borough 1929-30 and the Chairman of the Borough's public health

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 committee for six years, establishing a number of clinics and public health schemes. He represented Shoreditch on the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee. Jeger was elected to the London County Council

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 in 1931, serving until 1946. He was active in providing medical aid to the Republicans

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 in the Spanish Civil War

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.

Jeger stood for Parliament without success in 1935

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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 in St Pancras South East

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 but won the seat at the 1945 general election

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. He was elected in the two subsequent elections in 1950 and 1951 for the new seat of Holborn and St Pancras South

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. He died in 1953 and was succeeded as Member of Parliament

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 in the ensuing by-election

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 by his widow, Lena Jeger, later Baroness Jeger.

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