Cleveland Escorts: THE CHEQUERED HISTORY OF A QUIET CONSTITUENCY ON THE AVON…
Between 1923 and 1950 the interests of Stratford and South Warwickshire were represented in Parliament by another ultimately tragic figureSir Anthony Eden (later Lord Avon), who resigned both as Prime Minister and as an MP in January 1957 after the debacle of Suez three months earlier.
The first MP in 1885 was an aristocratic LiberalLord William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton. His tenure was brief. The following year he was succeeded by the Conservative Frederick Townsend, who held the seat until 1892. The next MP was a Conservative by the name of Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdalethe paternal grandfather of the legendary Mitford sisters, who brightened up Britains social, political and literary life both before and after the Second World War.
In 1950 a wealthy Old Harrovian of Italian origins by the name of John Profumo, a former soldier, won the newly re-established seat of Stratford for the Conservatives.
In July 1961, at a party at Lord Astors mansion, Cliveden in Berkshire, Profumo was introduced to the call girl Christine Keeler. . .