John Loveridge
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Sir John Loveridge |
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| Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Hornchurch |
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In office 1970 – February 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Alan Lee Williams |
| Succeeded by | Alan Lee Williams |
| Majority | 5,830 |
| Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Upminster |
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In office February 1974 – 1983 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Nicholas Bonsor |
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9 September 1925 Bowdon, Cheshire, England |
| Died | 13 November 2007 (aged 82) London, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
Sir John Warren Loveridge (9 September 1925 – 13 November 2007) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for 13 years, from 1970 to 1983. He was also the owner of a London secretarial college, a farmer in the West Country, and a published poet and an abstract sculptor.
Loveridge was born in Bowdon in Cheshire, the son of Claude W Loveridge and his wife, Emily (née Malone). His father was a civil engineer and businessman who had been wounded at the Battle of the Somme, and his mother founded St Godric's College, a secretarial college in Hampstead, in 1929. He was educated privately, and studied engineering at St John's College, Cambridge. After graduating, he worked in aviation, developing fighter aircraft from 1945 to 1947, but soon became the Vice-Principal of St Godric's College. He became Principal in 1954, retaining that position until the college closed in 1990. Author John Fowles taught at the college for nearly 10 years. He assisted a son, Michael, to founding Devonshire House Preparatory School, and he and his wife also ran Lyndhurst House preparatory school, both in Hampstead.
Loveridge fought several elections for the Liberal Party, but joined the Conservative Party in 1949. He contested Aberavon in the 1951 general election, a Labour Party safe seat, and stood unsuccessfully for the London County Council in Brixton in 1952. He served as a Conservative member of Hampstead Borough Council from 1953 to 1959. He became a magistrate in London in 1963, but also acquired farming interests in the West Country. He bought the 1,800-acre (7.3 km2) Bindon Manor estate near Axmouth in Devon in 1962, and restored the house.
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