| 词条 | Richard Pilkington (politician, born 1908) |
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| honorific-prefix = Sir | name = Richard Pilkington | honorific-suffix = MP | image = | caption = | constituency_MP = Widnes | parliament = | term_start = 14 November 1935 | term_end = 5 July 1945 | majority = | predecessor = Roland Robinson | successor = Christopher Nyholm Shawcross | constituency_MP2 = Poole | parliament2 = | term_start2 = 25 October 1951 | term_end2 = 15 October 1964 | majority2 = | predecessor2 = Mervyn Wheatley | successor2 = Oscar Murton | birth_date = 10 May 1908 | birth_place = St Helens, Merseyside | death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|12|09|1908|05|10|df=yes}} | death_place = | nationality = British | spouse = Rosemary Kidwell, née Russell-Roberts | party = Conservative | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = Christ Church College, Oxford | occupation = | profession = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} Sir Richard Antony Pilkington, KBE, MC (10 May 1908 – 9 December 1976) was a British Conservative Party politician and a soldier in the British Army. Early lifeRichard Pilkington was born in St Helens to the Chairman of the Pilkington glass works, Arthur Pilkington, and Marjorie Cope, daughter of the painter Arthur Stockdale Cope. He was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He worked and travelled in North America from 1928 until 1930 when he joined the Coldstream Guards, serving in Sudan and Egypt. Military and political careerIn 1935 he resigned his commission to enter politics and was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Widnes in Lancashire. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Oliver Stanley. On the outbreak of the Second World War he rejoined the Army and travelled to France with the British Expeditionary Force. He was awarded the Military Cross after returning with one of the last groups from Dunkirk in 1940. He left the Army again in 1942 and became a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, leading naval missions to India, Ceylon and Burma. He lost his seat to Christopher Shawcross in 1945 and lost again in 1950. In 1951 he won election as Member of Parliament for Poole in Dorset, a seat he held until his retirement from politics in 1964 after a car accident and the onset of Parkinson's disease. He died from the disease in 1976 at the age of 68. Personal lifeRichard Pilkington married Rosemary Kidwell, née Russell-Roberts, in 1946 and had three daughters. He was also known for his collection of cars, all red...a passion shared by his nephew Sir Antony Pilkington. References
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| title = Member of Parliament for Widnes | years = 1935–1945 | before = Roland Robinson | after = Christopher Nyholm Shawcross }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Poole | years = 1951–1964 | before = Mervyn Wheatley | after = Oscar Murton }}{{S-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Pilkington, Richard}} 17 : 1908 births|1976 deaths|People educated at Charterhouse School|Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford|Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|Lords of the Admiralty|Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire|Recipients of the Military Cross|UK MPs 1935–45|UK MPs 1951–55|UK MPs 1955–59|UK MPs 1959–64|Coldstream Guards officers|People from St Helens, Merseyside|Deaths from Parkinson's disease|British Army personnel of World War II|Admiralty personnel of World War II |
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