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Dennis Forwood Vosper, Baron Runcorn TD PC (2 January 1916 - 20 January 1968) was a British Conservative politician.
Educated at The Leas, Hoylake, Marlborough College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he first worked with Wilson, Vosper & Coltart, Ships Store & Export Merchants, in Liverpool. He was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment (Territorial Army) in April 1939 and served until the 1950s, reaching the rank of Major.
He was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Runcorn, Cheshire in 1950, holding the seat until 1964.
He held office as Conservative Whip, 1950-1954; as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1951-1954; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, October 1954-January 1957; Minister of Health, 1957, from which he resigned owing to illness in September 1957. He was Leader of the Parliamentary Delegation to West Indies, 1958. He returned to ministerial office as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1959-1960, as Minister of State for Home Affairs, 1960-1961; and as Secretary for Technical Co-operation, 1961-1963.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1957 and was created a life peer in 1964 as Baron Runcorn, of Heswall in the County Palatine of Cheshire.
Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded by
constituency createdMember of Parliament for Runcorn
1950–1964Succeeded by
Mark CarlislePolitical offices Preceded by
Robin TurtonMinister of Health
1957–1957Succeeded by
Derek Walker-SmithSecretaries of State for Health of the United Kingdom Ministers of Health Christopher Addison · Alfred Mond · Arthur Griffith-Boscawen · Neville Chamberlain · William Joynson-Hicks · John Wheatley · Neville Chamberlain · Arthur Greenwood · Neville Chamberlain · Edward Hilton Young · Kingsley Wood · Walter Elliot · Malcolm MacDonald · Ernest Brown · Henry Willink · Aneurin Bevan · Hilary Marquand · Harry Crookshank · Iain Macleod · Robin Turton · Dennis Vosper · Derek Walker-Smith · Enoch Powell · Anthony Barber · Kenneth RobinsonSecretaries of State for Social Services Richard Crossman · Sir Keith Joseph · Barbara Castle · David Ennals · Patrick Jenkin · Norman Fowler · John MooreSecretaries of State for Health Kenneth Clarke · William Waldegrave · Virginia Bottomley · Stephen Dorrell · Frank Dobson · Alan Milburn · John Reid · Patricia Hewitt · Alan Johnson · Andy Burnham · Andrew LansleyCategories:- 1916 births
- 1968 deaths
- Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Cheshire Regiment officers
- Conservative Party (UK) life peers
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- Old Marlburians
- UK MPs 1950–1951
- UK MPs 1951–1955
- UK MPs 1955–1959
- UK MPs 1959–1964
- Conservative MP (UK), 1910s birth stubs
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