George Arthur Victor Duckworth (3 January 1901 – 14 November 1986), known as Arthur Duckworth, was a British Conservative Party politician.
He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shrewsbury at the 1929 general election. He was re-elected in 1931 and 1935, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1945 election.[1]
In 1936, he won 7th place in the ballot for private member's bills,[2] and proposed to bring forward a Medical and Surgical Appliances (Advertisement) Bill.
He announced in April 1945 that he would not stand again at the next election.[3]
Duckworth married Alice Frances Hammond, a fifth-generation descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, in March 1927; they had three daughters. The couple were divorced in February 1942, on the grounds of his wife's adultery in New York;[4] she married the American bandleader Benny Goodman the following month.[5]
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