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British politician
Keith Monin Stainton
(8 November 1921 ? 3 November 2001) was a British
Conservative
politician
World War II
decorated veteran.
Keith Stainton was born in
Kendal
,
Westmorland
, the son of a Kendal butcher father and a Belgian refugee mother who met during the First World War. He left school at 14 and worked as an insurance clerk from 1936 until military service.
In early 1940 he volunteered for the Navy and was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, into submarines and served on the famous French submarine
Casabianca
. Part French himself, he was awarded the
Legion d'honneur
, the
Croix de Guerre avec Palme
and a
citation a l'ordre de L'Armee
for his spy landings and torpedo actions in the Mediterranean.
After the war he read economics at
Manchester University
where he was founder chairman of the Manchester University Conservative Association. From 1949 to 1952, he was a leader writer for the
Financial Times
. He was also a founder member of the
Bow Group
and first chairman of
Croydon East
Conservative Association.
After working as a management consultant, he joined a major food manufacturing and distribution company and became managing director and chairman. He was a Lloyd's underwriter specialising in maritime and aviation reinsurance.
Stainton was
Member of Parliament
for
Sudbury and Woodbridge
from a
1963 by-election
until the
1983 general election
, when the seat was abolished by boundary changes; he failed to win selection in either of its successor seats,
South Suffolk
and
Suffolk Coastal
.
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Edward Heath
made him opposition spokesman on aviation in 1965.
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Stainton married twice, and had six children by his first wife Vanessa Ann Heald (marriage dissolved). He married Frances Easton in 1980,
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