Vyvyan Adams, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vyvyan Adams

British Conservative Party politician

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1900

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1951

Profession: politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Vyvyan Adams

  • Samuel Vyvyan Trerice Adams (22 April 1900 – 13 August 1951), known as Vyvyan Adams, was a British Conservative Party politician.
  • He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West from 1931 to 1945, when he was defeated by the swing to Labour.
  • He stood unsuccessfully in the Fulham East constituency in 1947 and 1950.
  • He had been adopted for the safe Conservative seat of Darwen early in 1951, but died later that year. His Times obituary was headed Intellectual Honesty and Independence.
  • He was opposed to appeasement of Mussolini (in Abyssinia) and Hitler, and was one of the two Conservative MPs (with Duff Cooper) to oppose the Munich agreement with Hitler in 1938.
  • He was opposed to the death penalty.

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