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Martin Woodroffe

The 1931 New Party candidate for Chatham was under 21 when he submitted his nomination papers. The local Conservative and Labour campaigns raised an objection to his candidacy because he was under-age but this objection was overruled at the civic level. I am not aware of any previous candidates being allowed to stand who were under 21, so Woodfoffe's may have been the first. If he was the first, I believe this would make him notable enough to warrant a biographical article on wikipedia.

Some records show him as M.F. Woodroffe. He would have been born in 1910 or 1911. Ancestry.co.uk has a 1911 Gloucestershire census record for a Francis Martin Woodroffe. If this record is for the same person, then it means that he was most likely born in 1910. Graemp (talk) 19:59, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Very interesting; unfortunately I've not been able to find much more on him: he left the New Party in 1932 and joined the (Unionist) League of Youth and Liberty; a Martin Woodroffe of the Pontypool Conservatives and Unionists appears in 1937 criticising Belisha beacons, and Francis Martin Woodroffe of Middle Temple in 1938 is in the news, challenging Austin Hopkinson to resign his seat. Warofdreams talk 12:17, 18 July 2016 (UTC)