Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport

Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Baron Alport, PC, DL (22 March 1912 – 28 October 1998) was a Conservative Party politician, minister, and life peer.

"Cub" Alport was educated at Haileybury College, Haileybury, Hertfordshire, England, and graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1934. He was a tutor at Ashridge College, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, from 1935 to 1939. During the Second World War, he served in the British Army as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the King's African Rifles. He was General Staff Officer 1 (GSO 1) of the East Africa Command between 1944 and 1945.

Alport was an assistant secretary for the Conservative Party Education Department between 1937 and 1939. He was Director of the Conservative Political Centre between 1945 and 1950. He was elected as the Tory Member of Parliament for the Colchester constituency, in the 1950 general election and held the seat until 16 February 1961, when he was created Baron Alport, of Colchester in the County of Essex, a life peerage. On his elevation to the peerage, the Colchester constituency was held by the Tories in a by-election by Antony Buck.

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