Spencer Summers
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Sir Gerard Spencer Summers (27 October 1902 – 19 January 1976) was a British Conservative politician.
Biography
Summers was born in Flintshire, Wales, in 1902, and educated at Wellington School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He became a director of the family business of John Summers & Sons, steelmakers.
During the Second World War (1940-1945) he was the elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Northampton and appointed the Director-General of Regional Organisation at the Ministry of Supply.[1] In 1945, he was the Secretary for Overseas Trade in the post-war caretaker government.
In 1946 he also assumed the role of first chairman of the Outward Bound Trust.[2] He was also a Governor of UWC Atlantic College from its opening in 1962–76, and was on the foundation committee for three years prior to its opening.[3]
He was MP for Aylesbury from 1950 until his retirement in 1970. He was knighted in 1956 [4] and selected High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1974–75.[5]
Personal life
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References
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- ↑ Arnold-Brown, Adam (1962). Unfolding Character: The Impact of Gordonstoun, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- ↑ Atlantic College Yearbook 1976.
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