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claiming that one hundred Unionist MPs would defect if a Centre Party was formed. Lloyd George, however, decided to stay with the Coalition. He left office with Lloyd George when the Unionists ended the coalition in October 1922.
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direction. However, he was not returned at that election. He died in November 1941, aged 71, a month before his former co-member for Northampton,
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After the coalition ended, McCurdy favoured Liberal reunion. He was influential in drawing up the Liberals'
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in 1920. After the Ministry of Food Control was abolished in April 1921, he was appointed Coalition Liberal
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having sought election elsewhere and joined the Labour Party.
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Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control
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For the American lawyer, diplomat and politician, see
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Charles J. McCurdy
Charles McCurdy Mathias

Liberal
Member of Parliament
Lloyd George Coalition Government
Privy Council
Loughborough Grammar School
Pembroke College, Cambridge
barrister
Northampton
Hastings Lees-Smith
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control
Minister of Food Control
Chief Whip
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
Frederick Guest
Robert Sanders
Labour
Lloyd George
manifesto
1923 general election
free trade
Hastings Lees-Smith
Margaret Wingfield

General election 1906
Conservative
Guy Victor Baring
Liberal

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