George Elliston (politician)
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Captain Sir George Sampson Elliston MC (27 July 1875, Ipswich – 21 February 1954) was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn from 1931 to 1945.
Ellison was educated at Ayerst Hall, Cambridge, Framlingham College and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[1] He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1901.[1] However, he subsequently became a doctor by profession and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during and after the First World War.
First elected MP for Blackburn in 1931, Elliston was re-elected in 1935.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Elliston, George Sampson (ELSN893GS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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- 1875 births
- 1954 deaths
- People educated at Framlingham College
- Alumni of St Edmund's College, Cambridge
- Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
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- British Army personnel of World War I
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1931–1935
- UK MPs 1935–1945
- Politics of Blackburn with Darwen
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- Conservative MP for England, 1870s birth stubs