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Keith Monin Stainton (8 November 1921 – 3 November 2001) was a BritishConservative politician and decoratedWorld War II veteran.
Stainton was born inKendal,Westmorland on 8 November 1921, the son of a Kendal butcher father and a Belgian refugee mother who met during the First World War. He left school at 14 and worked as an insurance clerk from 1936 until military service.
In early 1940 he volunteered for the Navy and was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, into submarines and served on the famous French submarineCasabianca. Part French himself, he was awarded theLégion d'honneur, theCroix de Guerre avec Palme and acitation à l'ordre de L'Armée for his spy landings and torpedo actions in the Mediterranean.
After the war he read economics atManchester University where he was founder chairman of the Manchester University Conservative Association. From 1949 to 1952, he was a leader writer for theFinancial Times. He was also a founder member of theBow Group and first chairman ofCroydon East Conservative Association.
After working as a management consultant, he joined a major food manufacturing and distribution company and became managing director and chairman. He was a Lloyd's underwriter specialising in maritime and aviation reinsurance.
Stainton wasMember of Parliament forSudbury and Woodbridge from a1963 by-election until the1983 general election, when the seat was abolished by boundary changes; he failed to win selection in either of its successor seats,South Suffolk andSuffolk Coastal.[1]Edward Heath made him opposition spokesman on aviation in 1965.
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Stainton married twice, and had six children by his first wife Vanessa Ann Heald (marriage dissolved). He married Frances Easton in 1980,
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