Somerset Stopford Brooke

Somerset Stopford Brooke was a Liberal and Liberal National politician.

The son of the Liberal MP Stopford Brooke, Somerset Stopford Brooke was the president of the Oxford University Liberal Club and President of the Oxford Union. He was the Liberal candidate in Guildford in Surrey at the 1929 general election. He came second to the sitting Conservative Henry Cecil Buckingham, trailing by 4,566 votes.^[1] Somerset Stopford Brooke made a second attempt to get into the House of Commons in 1935 when he stood as a Liberal National in Shoreditch.^[2] At the time of this election Brooke was described as a member of the stock-exchange.^[3]

References

1. F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949 p47
2. The Times, 23 October 1935, p16
3. The Times House of Commons 1935; Politico's Publishing 2003, p42