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Name
  
Arthur Jones

Role
  
British Politician


Education
  
Bedford Modern School

Party
  
Conservative Party

Died
  
December 6, 1991, Bedford, United Kingdom

Books
  
For the Record Bedford 1945-1974: Land Use and Financial Planning

Albert Arthur Jones (23 October 1915 – 6 December 1991) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was two times Mayor of Bedford.

Life

Bedford-born, Jones was educated at Bedford Modern School and became an estate agent, company director and farmer in north Bedfordshire. He became a councillor on Bedford Borough Council in 1949 and on Bedfordshire County Council in 1956, serving as Mayor of Bedford 1957-59. He was vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations and was chairman of the Conservative Party national advisory committee on local government.

Jones contested Wellingborough in 1955. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Northamptonshire South from a 1962 by-election to 1974, and for Daventry from 1974 to 1979. His successor as MP for Daventry was Reg Prentice, previously MP for Newham North East who had defected from the Labour Party to the Conservatives two years earlier. He died in Bedford aged 76.

References

Arthur Jones (Conservative politician) Wikipedia