Sunday, 17 February 2019
2186 David Austick
Constituency : Ripon 1973-4
David made it a double triumph for the Liberals by taking Ripon from the Tories on the same day as Clement Freud's victory. He won by 946 votes. He campaigned on concessionary TV licences for pensioners and on local issues.
David was a partner in the family bookselling firm. He was a conscientious objector during World War Two. He was a devout Methodist and a regular attender at parliamentary prayers.
Most of David's parliamentary contributions concerned the local government reorganisation of 1974.
David was easily defeated in February 1974. He stood again in October and in 1979 stood in Cheadle. He stood for Leeds in the 1979 European elections.
David never returned to Parliament but was a district and county councillor in Yorkshire for many years. He was chairman of the Liberal Candidates Association and later chairman of the Electoral Reform Society. In later years he devoted himself to the antique book trade.
He died in 1997 aged 76.
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