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Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne

Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne

British Conservative Party politician


Henry Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne OBE TD PC (8 May 1914 – 5 July 2009[1]) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Career

Murton was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne[2] and educated at Uppingham School. He joined the Territorial Army with a commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1934. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1937 and to Captain in 1939. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the General Staff from 1942 to 1946. He later became a managing director of department stores.

Murton was Member of Parliament for Poole from 1964 to 1979, preceding John Ward. Murton was a government whip under Edward Heath and later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1973 to 1979. He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor in 1976, and after his retirement from the House of Commons at the 1979 general election, he was given a life peerage as Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, of Hexham in the County of Northumberland on 25 July 1979.[3]

Arms

Coat of arms of Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne
Crest
In front of a blackcock drumming Proper three crosses of St Cuthbert Argent.
Escutcheon
Argent a lion tricorporate Sable on a chief Sable three crosses of St Cuthbert Argent.
Supporters
Dexter a lion guardant Sable langued and armed Gules gorged with a circlet of St Cuthbert crosses linked Argent pendent therefrom an escallop Or, sinister a like lion similarly gorged pendent therefrom a portcullis Gold the compartment comprising a grassy mount Proper surrounded by water barry wavy Azure and Argent.
Motto
Quo Eas Voca [4]

References

  1. "No. 47914". The London Gazette. 27 July 1979. p. 9521.
  2. Debrett's Peerage. 1985.
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