Sir Roger Conant, 1st Baronet

Sir Roger John Edward Conant, 1st Baronet, CVO, DL (28 May 1899 – 30 March 1973) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for more than 25 years between 1931 and 1959.

Born in Kensington, London, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Chesterfield constituency at the 1929 general election, but won the seat at the 1931 general election when the Labour Party split over Ramsay MacDonald's formation of the National Government.

He lost the Chesterfield seat at the 1935 general election, but after the retirement in 1937 of Stanley Baldwin, he was returned to Parliament at a by-election for Baldwin's Bewdley constituency in Worcestershire. He held the seat until its abolition for the 1950 general election, when he was elected as MP for Rutland and Stamford.

Appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1953 Coronation Honours,[1] Conant was created a baronet on 30 June 1954.[2]

Sir Roger retired from the House of Commons at the 1959 general election. He died in 1973 in Chelsea.

Arms
Coat of arms of Sir Roger Conant, 1st Baronet
Crest
On a mount Vert a stag Proper the dexter foreleg resting on a shield Gules.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st & 4th per saltire Gules and Azure billetée Or (Conant); 2nd & 3rd Ermine on a bend Vert between three lions’ heads erased two and one Azure as many roses Or (Whiston).
Motto
Conanti Dabitur [3]
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References
  1. "No. 32863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1953. p. 2946.
  2. "No. 40224". The London Gazette. 6 July 1954. p. 3959.
  3. Burke's Peerage. 1959.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
George Benson		 Member of Parliament for Chesterfield
1931–1935		 Succeeded by
George Benson
Preceded by
Stanley Baldwin		 Member of Parliament for Bewdley
1937–1950		 Constituency abolished
Preceded by
Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby		 Member of Parliament for Rutland and Stamford
1950–1959		 Succeeded by
Kenneth Lewis
Political offices
Preceded by
Frank Collindridge		 Comptroller of the Household
1951–1954		 Succeeded by
Tam Galbraith
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Lyndon, Rutland)
1954–1973		 Succeeded by
John Conant


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