Roy Wise

Alfred Roy Wise (7 July 1901 – 21 August 1974) was a British Conservative Party politician and was the Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Rugby and Smethwick .

For the baseball player, see Roy Wise (baseball).

Biography

He was born on 7 July 1901 to Alfred Gascoyne Wise and Augusta Frances Nugent. His father was a judge for the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, and his brother was Percival Kinnear Wise.

He married Cassandra Coke and had one son, Group Captain Adam Nugent Wise LVO MBE RAF, born 1943.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Smethwick, holding the seat until his defeat in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, when he contested Epping, replacing the Conservative candidature of Prime Minister Winston Churchill who had transferred to the new seat of Woodford. He returned to the House of Commons at the 1959 general election as MP for Rugby, winning the seat from the sitting Labour MP James Johnson with a majority of only 407.[1]

Wise was re-elected at the 1964 election with a slightly increased majority of 1,689. However, at the 1966 general election he lost the seat to the Labour candidate, William Price by a margin of only 409 votes.[2]

He died on 21 August 1974.

Electoral history

General election 1929: Smethwick[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Oswald Mosley	19,550	54.8	−2.3
	Unionist	Roy Wise	12,210	34.2	+0.5
	Liberal	Maude Egerton Marshall	3,909	11.0	+1.8
Majority			7,340	20.6	−2.8
Turnout			35,669	78.9	+0.3
	Labour hold		Swing	1.4

General election 1931: Smethwick[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Roy Wise	20,945	60.1	+25.7
	Labour	W. Ernest Lawrence	13,927	39.9	−14.9
Majority			7,018	20.2	n/a
Turnout			34,872	74.7	−4.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	20.3

General election 1935: Smethwick[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Roy Wise	16,575	52.5	−7.7
	Labour	Charles Wortham Brook	15,023	47.5	+7.6
Majority			1,552	5.0	−17.2
Turnout			31,598	70.7	−4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−7.7

General election 1945: Epping

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Leah Manning	15,993	44.1	+19.3
	Conservative	Roy Wise	15,006	41.3	-17.8
	Liberal	Sydney Robinson	5,134	14.6	-1.9
Majority			987	2.8
Turnout			36,313	71.4	+3.7
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+18.6

General election 1959: Rugby[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Roy Wise	17,429	42.6	-4.0
	Labour	James Johnson	16,959	41.4	-8.7
	Liberal	Simon Goldblatt	6,413	15.7	N/A
	Independent	Archie S Frost	142	0.4	N/A
Majority			470	1.2	-2.3
Turnout			40,924	85.6	+0.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General election 1964: Rugby[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Roy Wise	19,221	45.1	+2.5
	Labour	D.H. Childs	17,532	41.2	-0.2
	Liberal	Simon Goldblatt	5,522	13.0	-2.7
	Social Credit	Archie S Frost	304	0.7	N/A
Majority			1,689	4.0	+2.8
Turnout			42,580	84.6	-1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1966: Rugby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	William Price	21,797	50.0	+8.8
	Conservative	Roy Wise	21,388	49.0	+3.9
	Social Credit	Archie S Frost	397	0.9	+0.2
Majority			409	0.9	-3.1
Turnout			43,579	84.9	+0.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

References

1. Not updated: UK General Election results: October 1959
2. Not updated: UK General Election results: March 1966
3. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig (1983). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Roy Wise

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Oswald Mosley	Member of Parliament for Smethwick 1931–1945	Succeeded by Alfred Dobbs
Preceded by James Johnson	Member of Parliament for Rugby 1959–1966	Succeeded by William Price