Aidan Crawley
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Aidan Merivale Crawley (10 April 1908 – 3 November 1993) was a British journalist and politician who was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour Party candidate and as a Conservative party politician.
Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, he played cricket for Oxford University and Kent, even playing for latter whilst an MP in 1947.
He was Labour Member of Parliament for Buckingham from 1945 to 1951, when he lost to the Conservative candidate Frank Markham, himself an ex-Labour MP. He was married to the writer, and journalist Virginia Cowles with whom he had 3 children.
In 1955, he was the first editor-in-chief of Independent Television News.
In 1962, he was elected to Parliament as a Conservative, winning the by-election in West Derbyshire. He held the seat through two general elections, before resigning in 1967 to become Chairman of London Weekend Television.
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| Preceded by Lionel Berry |
Member of Parliament for Buckingham 1945–1951 |
Succeeded by Frank Markham |
| Preceded by Edward Wakefield |
Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire 1962–1967 |
Succeeded by James Scott-Hopkins |
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