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Encyclopedia > Frederick Corfield

The Right Honourable Sir Frederick Vernon Corfield (b. 1 June 1915) is British Conservative politician and was formerly a minister.


Corfield came from an army family and joined the Royal Artillery in 1935. During World War II he served first with the British Expeditionary Force and then with the 51st Highland Division but he was captured by German forces in 1940 and spent the remainder of the war in an internment camp. On his return to England he qualified as a lawyer and became MP for South Gloucestershire in 1955. Under Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home he held the position of Joint Parliamentary Secretary of Housing and Local Government (1962-4).


In 1970 Corfield was briefly Minister of State at the newly formed Department of Trade and Industry under John Davies. He subsequently held the positions of Minister for Aviation Supply and Aerospace Minister (1970-2) where he was responsible for the cancellation of the Black Arrow rocketry programme but provided financial assistance to Rolls Royce when it ran into difficulties that hampered its defence commitments. He also presided over the first full scale roll out of Concorde.


He returned to the backbenches in 1972 and did not contest his Gloucestershire seat in the general election of 1974. After this retirement from the commons he returned to legal pursuits and took seats on the boards of various water companies.


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Telegraph | News | Sir Frederick Corfield (671 words)
Sir Frederick Corfield, who died on August 25 aged 90, was Conservative MP for South Gloucester from 1955 to 1974 and had the misfortune during his ministerial career to be at the heart of two big political controversies, neither of his own making.
Frederick Vernon Corfield was born on June 1 1915, the son of Brigadier FA Corfield, DSO.
Frederick Corfield was knighted in 1972, the same year in which he took Silk; from 1979 to 1987 he was a Recorder of the Crown Court; and he was elected a Bencher of Middle Temple in 1980.
Rev. Frederick Corfield 1821 (173 words)
Frederick was born on 10 July 1821, the son of William Wilmot Corfield and Mary Rogers, at Penryn, Cornwall.
daughter of Rev. Frederick Corfield and Sarah Weller Channer
son of Rev. Frederick Corfield and Sarah Weller Channer
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