John Hall (Wycombe MP)
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Sir John Hall Template:Post-nominals (21 September 1911 – 19 January 1978)<ref name="rayment">Template:Rayment-hc</ref> was a British Conservative Party politician.
Education and business career
Hall was educated privately and worked as a chartered secretary and company director, including of Viskase and Bass Charrington.<ref>The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1978, p. 320</ref><ref name="times-guide-1966">Template:Cite book</ref>
Political career
Hall first stood for Parliament without success in Grimsby in 1950 and Fulham East in 1951.<ref name="times-guide-1966" /> He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wycombe at a by-election in November 1952.<ref name="rayment" /> Hall served as an opposition spokesman on Treasury, economic affairs and trade until October 1965.<ref name="times-guide-1966" /> He was an executive member of the 1922 Committee from 1964 to 1966 and vice-chairman of the Conservative parliamentary finance committee from 1965.<ref name="times-guide-1966" />
He was knighted in July 1973<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> "for political and public services".<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>
Hall suffered a heart attack in the summer of 1977 and soon announced he would not stand for election again. He died at a hospital in London on 19 January 1978, aged 66.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His death triggered the by-election.
Personal life
In 1935, Hall married Nancy Doreen Hampton Blake. They had a son and a daughter. The Halls lived at Carlisle Place, London SW1.<ref>The Blue Book: Leaders of the English-speaking World, St James Press, 1973, p. 590</ref><ref>The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1978, p. 320</ref>
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