Captain Alan Crosland Graham (2 August 1896 - 10 May 1964) was a British

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 Conservative

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 politician.

He was the son of Sir Crosland Graham of Clwyd Hall, Ruthin

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, Denbighshire

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, a Liverpool

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 businessman. He was educated at Rugby School

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. In 1915 he was commissioned as an officer in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

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, serving in France and north Russia during the First World War.

Following the war he attended Trinity College, Oxford

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, where he studied history. He became involved in Conservative politics, being appointed as private political secretary to Arthur Balfour

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 from 1925 to 1929. He unsuccessfully stood for election in 1929

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 in Denbigh

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, and 1931

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 in Darwen

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. He was private secretary to the first Viscount Hailsham

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 from 1932 to 1935. In the latter year he was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Wirral

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. He was a member of the Anglo-Polish Parliamentary Committee, and published a book entitled Does Poland matter to Britain? An indictment of political isolationism, a cry for justice and for Christianity in action. He retired as member of parliament at the next general election in 1945

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.

He was married twice. His first marriage was to Marion du Plessis of Cape Town

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with whom he had two daughters. They were divorced in 1948, and in 1953 he married Marie Antoinette Louise Pavluc. The second marriage produced a son and daughter.