Saturday, 3 November 2018
2078 Piers Thompson
Constituency : Torquay 1923-4
Piers took Torquay from the Tories at the second attempt.
Piers was the son of an Anglican minister. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford. He served in World War One as a captain. He then went into publishing, eventually becoming a partner in his own firm. He cut the Tory majority in 1922.
Piers' only parliamentary speech was introducing an Access to Mountains Bill.
In 1924, Piers was defeated by more than the Labour vote.
Piers later moved to Kent and accepted an invitation to contest Sevenoaks in 1936 but by 1945 he had lost interest in standing.
Piers was on the executive of the Proportional Representation Society.
He died in 1969 aged 75.
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