Victor Cazalet

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Victor Alexander Cazalet (27 December 1896 – 4 July 1943) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).

Cazalet was a Captain during World War I. He was first elected at the 1924 general election, serving as MP for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire until his death. His sister, Thelma Cazalet-Keir was a noted feminist also and also a Conservative MP.

During the Spanish Civil War, he was a strong supporter of General Franco and the fascists,^[1] serving on the House of Commons 'Friends of National Spain' committee. However during World War II, he opposed, with Winston Churchill, the appeasement of Adolf Hitler by Neville Chamberlain's government.^[2]

He was killed in 1943 when his plane from Gibraltar to Britain crashed seconds after take off. The B-24 Liberator flight AL523 was also carrying the Polish General Władysław Sikorski; Sikorski and everyone else on board — 17 in all — died in the crash.

[edit] Biography

• James, Robert Rhodes (1976). Victor Cazalet: a portrait. London: Hamilton. ISBN 0241894050. 

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• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Alfred James Bonwick	Member of Parliament for Chippenham 1924–1943	Succeeded by David Eccles