Patricia Hornsby-Smith
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Margaret Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Baroness Hornsby-Smith, DBE PC (17 March 1914 – 3 July 1985) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
At the 1950 general election, she was elected as Member of Parliament for Chislehurst, winning a majority of only 167 votes over the sitting Labour MP, George Wallace.
She was re-elected at the next four general elections, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1959. At the 1966 election, she lost her seat to Labour's Alistair Macdonald, by a majority of only 810. Four years later, at the 1970 election, she regained the seat with a majority of over 3,000.
Following boundary changes to the parliamentary constituencies, Hornsby-Smith stood in the new seat of Aldridge-Brownhills at the February 1974 general election, but lost to the Labour candidate Geoffrey Edge by just 366 votes. Hornsby-Smith was subsequently elevated to a life peerage in May that year as Baroness Hornsby-Smith, of Chislehurst in the County of Kent.
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| Preceded by George Wallace |
Member of Parliament for Chislehurst 1950–1966 |
Succeeded by Alistair Macdonald |
| Preceded by Alistair Macdonald |
Member of Parliament for Chislehurst 1970–February 1974 |
Succeeded by Roger Sims |
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