Geoffrey Stewart-Smith

(Dudley) Geoffrey Stewart-Smith (29 December 1933 – 13 March 2004) was a British politician. He served one term as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Belper in Derbyshire after he defeated the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party George Brown. In Parliament and outside it he was a fervent anti-Communist, and a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club.

Geoffrey Stewart-Smith was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He subsequently served as an officer in the Black Watch regiment (1952–1960), including time in Nigeria and Germany. His marriage in 1956 ended in divorce in 1990. There were three sons of the marriage.

During the 1960s, Stewart-Smith was active in anti-communist circles. He was also a supporter of Edward Martells's Freedom Group and worked on The New Daily. Apart from his numerous publications, in 1965, he recommended a form of recreation of the wartime Political Warfare Executive and the Special Operations Executive, in order to "counter subversion". The following year, he became an advisor to British Military Volunteer Forces, a group who had planned to send at least a battalion of British volunteers to fight with the Americans in the Vietnam War. Stewart-Smith had lengthy discussions with Colonel Frederick Lash, the US Military Attaché in London on this issue. The British government, however, opposed the plan.

In 1967, he organised an interdenominational service at the Royal Albert Hall to commemorate all those who had died at the hands of communists. His estimate was that the total was then about 95 million, and was printed on the back of the programme of service. More than 4,500 refugees from behind the Iron Curtain attended the service. He was disappointed that only two MPs and two Peers attended, and said that was "typical".

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