Roy Wise

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Alfred Roy Wise (7 July 1901 – 21 August 1974) was a British Conservative Party politician and was the Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Rugby and Smethwick.

Biography

He was born on 7 July 1901 to Alfred Gascoyne Wise and Augusta Frances Nugent. His father was a judge for the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, and his brother was Percival Kinnear Wise.

He married Cassandra Coke and had one son, Group Captain Adam Nugent Wise LVO MBE RAF, born 1943.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Smethwick, holding the seat until his defeat in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, when he contested Epping, replacing the Conservative candidature of Prime Minister Winston Churchill who had transferred his candidature to the new, safer seat of Woodford. He returned to the House of Commons at the 1959 general election as MP for Rugby, winning the seat from the sitting Labour MP James Johnson with a majority of only 407.

Wise was re-elected at the 1964 election with a slightly increased majority of 1,689. However, at the 1966 general election he lost the seat to the Labour candidate, William Price by a margin of only 409 votes.

He died on 21 August 1974.

Electoral history

General election 1929: Smethwick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Oswald Mosley	19,550	54.8
		Roy Wise	12,210	34.2
		Maude Egerton Marshall	3,909	11.0
Majority			7,340	20.6
Turnout			35,669	78.9
	hold		Swing	1.4

General election 1931: Smethwick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Roy Wise	20,945	60.1
		W. Ernest Lawrence	13,927	39.9
Majority			7,018	20.2
Turnout			34,872	74.7
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	20.3

General election 1935: Smethwick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Roy Wise	16,575	52.5
		Charles Wortham Brook	15,023	47.5
Majority			1,552	5.0
Turnout			31,598	70.7
	hold		Swing	−7.7

General election 1945: Epping

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Leah Manning	15,993	44.1
		Roy Wise	15,006	41.3
		Sydney Robinson	5,134	14.6
Majority			987	2.8
Turnout			36,313	71.4
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+18.6

General election 1959: Rugby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Roy Wise	17,429	42.6
		James Johnson	16,959	41.4
		Simon Goldblatt	6,413	15.7
		Archie S Frost	142	0.4
Majority			470	1.2
Turnout			40,924	85.6
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing

General election 1964: Rugby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Roy Wise	19,221	45.1
		D.H. Childs	17,532	41.2
		Simon Goldblatt	5,522	13.0
		Archie S Frost	304	0.7
Majority			1,689	4.0
Turnout			42,580	84.6
	hold		Swing

General election 1966: Rugby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Price	21,797	50.0
		Roy Wise	21,388	49.0
		Archie S Frost	397	0.9
Majority			409	0.9
Turnout			43,579	84.9
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing

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