Julian Ridsdale

Sir Julian Ridsdale CBE
Member of Parliament for Harwich
In office 11 February 1954 – 9 April 1992
Preceded by	Stanley Holmes
Succeeded by	Iain Sproat
Personal details
Born	Julian Errington Ridsdale 8 June 1915
Died	21 July 2004 (Age 89)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Other political affiliations	National Liberal
Spouse(s)	Victoire Evelyn Patricia Bennett
Relations	Sir Aurelian Ridsdale, Stanley Baldwin (uncles)

Sir Julian Errington Ridsdale, CBE (8 June 1915 – 21 July 2004) was a British National Liberal and later Conservative Party politician and long-serving Member of Parliament for the constituency of Harwich in Essex. He took a particular interest in Japan.

The son of a stockbroker and nephew both of former Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Liberal MP Sir Aurelian Ridsdale, he was educated at Tonbridge School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After being commissioned as an officer into the Royal Norfolk Regiment, he studied Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies and during the war was a military intelligence officer specialising in Japan, rising to the rank of Major.

After the war, he ran a fruit farm in Sussex. His wife Victoire Evelyn Patricia "Paddy" Bennett, whom he married in 1942, was then secretary to the writer Ian Fleming. She is reported to have been a model for the character Miss Moneypenny, secretary to James Bond. She was her husband's secretary and chairman of the Conservative MPs' Wives, and was awarded the DBE in 1991.

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