Sir Roger Conant, 1st Baronet

For other people named Roger Conant, see Roger Conant (disambiguation).

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.

He retired from the House of Commons at the 1959 general election, having been made a baronet in 1954. He died in 1973 in Chelsea.

References

• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Roger Conant

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