Geoffrey Johnson Smith

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Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith Kt DL (born April 16, 1924) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001, with only a brief interruption in the 1960s.

He was educated at Charterhouse and Lincoln College, Oxford, before being elected to the London County Council in 1955.^[1].

At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras South, a previously Labour-held marginal seat. He was defeated at the 1964 general election, but returned to the House of Commons the following year at a by-election in the safe Conservative seat of East Grinstead. When that constituency was abolished for the 1983 election, he was returned for the new Wealden constituency, and held that seat until he retired at the 2001 general election.

Johnson Smith served as Under-Secretary of State for the Army during Edward Heath's 1970-74 government, and testified at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lena Jeger	Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras South 1959–1964	Succeeded by Lena Jeger
Preceded by Evelyn Emmet	Member of Parliament for East Grinstead 1965–1983	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Wealden 1983–2001	Succeeded by Charles Hendry