Ivor Stanbrook
| Ivor Stanbrook | |
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| Born |
13 January 1924 Willesden, North London, England |
| Died | 18 February 2004 (aged 80) |
| Nationality |
 British
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| Education |
Birkbeck, University of London Pembroke College, Oxford School of Oriental and African Studies University of East Anglia |
| Occupation |
Politician Barrister |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Joan (née Clement) |
| Children | Clive St George Clement Cedric John Lionel Clement |
Ivor Robert Stanbrook (13 January 1924 – 18 February 2004) was a British Conservative party politician and barrister. He represented Orpington as its Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992.
Stanbrook was born in Willesden, North London, the son of a laundry manager within the family business, the Sunlight Laundry. He was educated at Willesden High School, leaving at age 15, and became a legal assistant at Wembley Council, while taking a part-time degree in economics and law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He qualified as a pilot in 1943 and served with the RAF between 1943 and 1946. He completed postgraduate study at Pembroke College, Oxford then left for Nigeria in 1950 where he worked for ten years in the Colonial Service as District Officer in various regions of Northern and Western Nigeria, including Ilorin, Western Region. On his return, he was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1960 and practised criminal law, and was also a night lawyer for the Daily Express.
In the 1966 general election, Stanbrook was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate for the safe Labour seat of East Ham South. At the next general election in 1970, he gained Orpington with a majority of 1,332, a seat that had been represented by Eric Lubbock of the Liberal Party since the 1962 by-election.
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