Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford

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Joseph Anthony Porteous Trafford, Baron Trafford (20 July 1932 – 16 September 1989) was a British Conservative Party politician and consultant physician. He was educated at Charterhouse and Guys Hospital Medical School where he won the Gold Medal before attending Johns Hopkins University< Baltimore USA as a Fellow in Medicine and a Fulbright Scholar. He returned to take up an appointment as consultant physician at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. He became Pro-Chancellor of the University of Sussex

At the 1970 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the marginal seat of The Wrekin, but lost his seat in the February 1974 general election to Labour candidate Gerald Fowler, whom he had defeated in 1970. After the loss of his seat, Trafford was given a life peerage as Baron Trafford, of Falmer in the County of East Sussex. He died in 1989, aged 57. He was appointed as Minister of State for Health some three months prior to his death. He died in office.

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• Times Guide to the House of Commons February 1974
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gerald Fowler	Member of Parliament for The Wrekin 1970–February 1974	Succeeded by Gerald Fowler