Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank (28 August 1882 – 24 August 1949) was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician. He was a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) from 1924 to 1929, and from 1931 to 1945.

At the 1923 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1923

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, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Smethwick

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 constituency, but at the 1924 election

United Kingdom general election, 1924

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 he was elected as MP for Nottingham East

Nottingham East (UK Parliament constituency)

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, defeating the Liberal Party

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 MP Norman Birkett. At the 1929 election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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, he did not stand again in Nottingham (where Birkett regained the seat), but stood in Birkenhead East

Birkenhead East (UK Parliament constituency)

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, where the sitting Conservative MP William Stott

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 had stood down. However, he was defeated by the Liberal candidate, former MP Henry White

Henry Graham White

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Brocklebank returned to the House of Commons

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 at the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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, when he won the Liverpool Fairfield

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 constituency. He held that seat until his defeat at the 1945 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1945

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He was knight

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ed in King George VI's coronation honours in 1937.

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