Cyril Harry Alfred Lakin (29 December 1893 – 23 June 1948) was a Welsh

Wales

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 politician

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 and farmer

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 who was the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Llandaff and Barry

Llandaff and Barry (UK Parliament constituency)

Llandaff and Barry was a county constituency centred on the towns of Llandaff and Barry in Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

 in South Wales

South Wales

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. He won the seat at a by-election in June 1942, with a 5,655 majority over an independent

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 Labour candidate, but was defeated at the 1945 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1945

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 by the official Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 candidate Lynn Ungoed-Thomas

Lynn Ungoed-Thomas

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Lakin lived at Highlight Farm in what is now Highlight Park

Highlight Park

Highlight Park is a small district on the northern outskirts of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It is a circular housing estate built in the 1970s by Wimpy Homes. The area has a Tesco supermarket, a chemist, a community centre, a doctors' surgery and a fire station which was built...

, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. His son, a farmer, was also named Cyril and died in the early 1990s.

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