Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne

Henry Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne OBE TD PC (8 May 1914 – 5 July 2009^[1]) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Career

Murton was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne^[2] and educated at Uppingham School. He joined the Territorial Army with a commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1934. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1937 and to Captain in 1939. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the General Staff from 1942 to 1946. He later became a managing director of department stores.

Murton was Member of Parliament for Poole from 1964 to 1979, preceding John Ward. Murton was a government whip under Edward Heath and later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1973 to 1979. He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor in 1976, and after his retirement from the House of Commons at the 1979 general election, he was given a life peerage as Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, of Hexham in the County of Northumberland on 25 July 1979.^[3]

References

1. ↑ Lords Hansard, 6 July 2009
2. ↑ Births England and Wales 1837-1915
3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 47914. p. 9521. 27 July 1979.

• Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Oscar Murton

Chairmen of Ways and Means
Grant Bernal Osborne Greene Bernal Osborne Wilson-Patten Pleydell-Bouverie FitzRoy Massey Dodson Bonham Carter Raikes Playfair Otway Courtney Mellor Lowther Lawson Emmott Whitley Hope Young Hope Herbert Clifton Brown Milner MacAndrew Touche Anstruther-Gray Maybray-King Storey Fletcher Irving Grant-Ferris Thomas Murton Weatherill Walker Morris Haselhurst Hoyle

Second Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means
Mallalieu Murton Vacancy during Parliament elected in February 1974 Galpern Irvine Crawshaw Armstrong Dean Boothroyd Fookes Lord Primarolo Engel