Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye

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Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye (* February 12, 1898 in Reading , † February 14, 1998 in London ), also Edgar Louis Granville , was a British politician .

Life

Granville received his education in High Wycombe and in Australia , where he lived for a few years. During the First World War he served as a reconnaissance aircraft with the Australian Imperial Force in Gallipoli , Egypt and France .

As a result, he turned to politics, was elected in 1929 for the constituency of Eye in Suffolk for the Liberal Party as a member of the House of Commons . He was particularly active in agricultural and foreign policy. Within the party, he was vice chairman of the youth organization National League of Young Liberals. In the 1930s he was a Parliamentary Private Secretary for various government departments.

In 1939 and 1940 he was a captain in the Royal Artillery .

From 1942 to 1945 he was independent before he returned to the Liberals and narrowly maintained his seat twice. He lost this, however, in 1951. In 1952 he became a member of the Labor Party and ran again, albeit without success.

Granville was named a Life Peer , Baron Granville of Eye, of Eye in the County of Suffolk in 1967 and became a member of the House of Lords .

Some sources incorrectly state his year of birth as 1899.

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SURNAME Granville, Edgar, Baron Granville of Eye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1998
Place of death London