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Gilbert Granville Sharp

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Following the formation of the National government, he did not contest a seat at the 1931 General Election. Epping Liberals chose another Liberal candidate who managed to retain second place. He returned to contest Epping at the next election, polling his lowest share of the vote. This was the last
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He was elected a Member of the Liberal Party Council in 1941. He did not contest a seat at the 1945 General Election. He was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Press, serving from 1947 to 1949. He was Liberal candidate for the newly created
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at the 1950 General Election. Although Cornwall was a county where the Liberal Party support was strong, in this part of the county, Labour was established as the main alternative to the Conservatives and he finished a distant third;
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The Liberal Party, now led by Lloyd George, was challenging strongly both nationally and locally, and for the first time in Epping since the war, the Unionist vote dropped below 50%;
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was Sharp's opponent at the next election, standing as a Constitutionalist. Although Churchill had not yet re-joined the Unionists, he stood with their local support;
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from 1920 to 1921. He married, in 1915, Margaret Featherstone Kellett. They had one daughter. He married, in 1953, Eleanor Christina Brooke (née Herron).
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He was in Military Service, 1914–18, Public Schools Battalion and 2nd Scottish Border Regiment, Lieut, France, 1915–16 (wounded in
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Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services.
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A now united Liberal Party had a resurgence at the next election and Sharp came his closest to winning Epping;
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He was President of Cambridge University Liberal Club, 1921. He was Liberal candidate for the
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Co-edited with Brian Galpin, Maxwell on the Interpretation of Statutes, 10th edition, 1953.
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Epping in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1945.
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in 1948. He was Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court,
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Index

Liberal Party
Mafeking
South Africa
Prestatyn
Flintshire
1820 Settler
London
Kingswood School
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
President of Cambridge Union in 1921
Cambridge University Liberal Club
Battle of Somme
Call to Bar
Middle Temple
King's Lynn
King's Council
Ghana
Epping
1924
H. H. Asquith
David Lloyd George

General Election 1922
Unionist
Richard Colvin
Liberal
Turnout
Unionist
Swing
General Election 1923

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