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He died in Doddington aged 100 in December 1999, 68 years after leaving the House of Commons. He was the last surviving MP to have served during the reign of
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in 1939, Oldfield attempted to rejoin the armed forces, but was initially rejected due to his age. He eventually succeeded in enlisting as an
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Based on the date of the 1931 General Election being 27 October that year. Not known to have been claimed as a record.
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in August 1931, the parliamentary Labour Party was divided into two factions, with supporters of Prime Minister
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and the remaining MPs moving to the opposition benches. Oldfield chose to join the latter group, and when a
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airship crashed on its maiden voyage in October 1930, and Oldfield returned to the backbenches.
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In 1953, he married Jonnet Elizabeth Richards, and the couple moved to
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for South East Essex
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in the following year. He remained on the council until 1981.
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he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
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Index

Member of Parliament
South East Essex
Herbert Looker
Victor Raikes
Doddington
Kent
Labour
Conservative
Royal Field Artillery
Second Anglo-Boer War
Doddington Place Gardens
Kent
Eton College
Grenadier Guards
First World War
Trinity College, Cambridge
Anglicanism
Roman Catholicism
Toynbee Hall
East End of London
Labour Party
1929 general election
Member of Parliament
South East Essex
Second Labour Government
Secretary of State for Air
Lord Thomson
R101
National Government
Ramsay MacDonald

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