Bruce Douglas-Mann
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Bruce Leslie Home Douglas-Mann (23 June 1927 - 27 July 2000) was a British politician.
Douglas-Mann was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, Canada and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was a solicitor and served as a councillor on Kensington Borough Council 1962-65 and on the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from 1964.
Douglas-Mann contested St. Albans in 1964 and Maldon in 1966 as a Labour candidate. He was elected Member of Parliament for Kensington North in 1970, then for Mitcham and Morden in 1974.
In 1982, Douglas-Mann was one of the later defectors among Labour MPs to the new Social Democratic Party. However, he made the unique decision to resign and seek re-election at a by-election upon his change of allegiance. He lost to the Conservative candidate Angela Rumbold and was pushed into third place at the 1983 general election.
[edit] References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 and 1983
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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