Alan Dower
Alan Dower | |
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| In office 1931–1935 | |
| Member of Parliament for Stockport | |
| Member of Parliament for Penrith and Cockermouth | |
| In office 1935–1950 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alan Vincent Gandar Dower 28 March 1898 |
| Died | 6 May 1980 (aged 82) |
| Party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Marjorie Rosamond Seton (m. 1922 - 1927), Aymée Lavender Clerk (m. 1928) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Siblings Leonard Francis, Ronald Willie, Eric Leslie, Harold and Kenneth Cecil |
| Occupation | Politician, army officer |
Colonel Alan Vincent Gandar Dower (28 March 1898 – 6 May 1980) was a British Army officer and politician.[1] He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport from 1931 to 1935, and MP for Penrith and Cockermouth from 1935 to 1950.[1][2][3]
Dower's brother Eric was also a Conservative MP who established Aberdeen Airport and Aberdeen Airways, while another brother Kenneth was a well-known sportsman, author and explorer.[4] All used different versions of their surname: Dower, Gandar Dower and Gandar-Dower respectively.
Dower was twice married with a daughter from each marriage. He first married Marjorie Rosamond Seton Mulliner (m. 1922 - 1927) who later married Sir George Gordon Medlicott Vereker, and then Aymée Lavender Clerk (m. 1928), who later created a very popular range of scale model horses marketed as Julip Horses[5].
References
[edit]- 1 2 "DOWER, Col Alan Vincent Gandar". Who Was Who. A & C Black. 1920–2008. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
- ↑ Malies, J. (2004) "Gandar-Dower, Kenneth Cecil", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford
- ↑ Dower, Lavender (1997). Memoirs of a Gemini. Pembrokeshire: Cloudcraft Books. ISBN 1-86055-001-0.
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