biography
| name: |
Acland, Sir Richard (Thomas Dyke)
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pronunciation:
[akland]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–90)
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| biography:
| British politician. He studied at Oxford, entered parliament in 1931, but resigned from the Liberals to found, with J B Priestley, the Common Wealth Party (1942). Consistent with its advocacy of public ownership on moral grounds, he gave away his Devon family estate to the National Trust. He became a Labour MP in 1945, but resigned in 1955 in protest against Labour support for Britain's nuclear defence policy. |
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