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| Affiliation | Conservative |
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| Name | Edward du Cann |
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, England , United Kingdom |
| Email | None |
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May 28, 1924
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| Died | August 31, 2017
(93 years)
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
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| Info | Member of Parliament for Taunton 1956-1987
Chairman of the Conservative Party 1965-1967, Chairman of the 1922 Committee 1972-1984
Du Cann retired from the House of Commons in 1987, and sold his home Cothay Manor in 1993 to return to live in London. He was instrumental in creating a scholarship programme for rugby league players at the University of Oxford.
Du Cann succeeded Lord Duncan-Sandys as Chairman of Lonrho, a position from which he was forced to resign due to his role as deputy chairman of Homes Assured, a finance company which crashed. His resignation came two days before the company collapsed, owing £10 million to creditors. He was criticized as "incompetent" by a 1974 Department of Trade and Industry report regarding the bankrupt Keyser Ullman bank, of which he was a director.
Du Cann has been involved in several legal disputes over debts, his Somerset estate was repossesed in 1992, and his London flat was reposessed in 1993. He later had a bankruptcy order served against him.
He is a board member of E-Clear, a British payment processing company, which went into administration in January 2010.
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