Jocelyn Cadbury

Jocelyn Cadbury

Jocelyn Benedict Laurence Cadbury (3 March 1946 – 31 July 1982) was a British Conservative Party politician.

At the 1979 general election, on his second attempt, Cadbury was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield, defeating Labour incumbent Raymond Carter. It was one of the Conservatives' best and most surprising results in that election, as a Labour majority of 10,597 was overturned into a Conservative one of 204 on a 10.2% swing.

In the summer of 1982, Cadbury committed suicide. He shot himself in the garden of his parents' home in Birmingham. He was 36.

References

*"Times Guide to the House of Commons", 1979
*The Almanac of British Politics (1999)
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