Sir Anthony Fell (18 May 1914 – 20 March 1998)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for most of the years from 1951 to 1983.
He was educated in New Zealand and at Bedford School.[2] Fell married June Fell in 1938; the couple had two children, Michael Fell (born in 1939) and Patricia (born in 1940).[3] Fell had a strong interest in the arts and encouraged and supported his son, Michael, in establishing himself as an artist. [4]
He was elected at the 1951 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth, a seat which had been held at the start of the 20th century by his grandfather Sir Arthur Fell.[5] In 1957 he resigned the Conservative whip along with eight other Conservative Members of Parliament in protest at the reopening of the Suez Canal under Egyptian ownership.[6] Yarmouth returned him to the Commons at three further elections. At the 1966 general election, Labour's Hugh Gray won the seat, with a majority of 797.
Fell regained the seat at the 1970 general election, with a majority of over 3,000,[7] and retained it through three further elections until he retired, aged 69, at the 1983 general election. He was knighted in 1982. His successor was Michael Carttiss, another Conservative.
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