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made the amendment a matter of confidence, and attended in person to ensure its defeat on 30 March. This was one of the events which made Churchill and the Conservatives appear reactionary, contributing to their
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and a strong influence on her daughter. Her eldest brother, Edward, was killed in the Great War, serving as an officer in the newly formed Welsh Guards, at
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in October of the same year, when she gained the seat for the Conservatives from the by-election winner,
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in 1944, as a Guards officer, reaching the rank of Major, and survived the war.
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Cazalet was educated at home by governesses, and later attended lectures at the
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Thelma Cazalet was born in London, the third child of four and only daughter of
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Outside of parliament, Cazalet-Keir was a member of the
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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by Thelma Cazalet-Keir (The Bodley Head, London, 1967)
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Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945
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Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education
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Thelma Cazalet
CBE

Winston Churchill
Chuter Ede
Arthur Jenkins
Member of Parliament
Islington East
Leah Manning
Eric Fletcher
London
England
Eaton Square
Conservative
David Edwin Keir
CBE
feminist
Conservative Party
William Marshall Cazalet
Heron-Maxwell
Rudyard Kipling
Sylvia Pankhurst
Beatrice Webb
Christian Scientist
Fricourt
Victor
Military Cross
Peter
London School of Economics
Megan Lloyd George

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