Assheton Pownall
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall OBE, TD (1877 – 29 October 1953) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Lewisham East from 1918 to 1945.[1] During the late 1930s Pownall was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship.[2] He belonged to the moderate tendency within the Fellowship, stating that it existed "only to promote good relations between us and Germany" and was in no way in favour of Nazism.[3]
References
- ↑ Hansard profile
- ↑ Martin Pugh, "Hurrah For the Blackshirts!" Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the War, Pimlico, 2006, p. 270
- ↑ Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers on the Right, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 184
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Lewisham East 1918–1945 |
Succeeded by Herbert Morrison |
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