Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland 1906 - 1990
Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland , MP. 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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| Born: 26th Nov 1906 | Baptised:
| | Died: Exeter, Devon, England 24th Nov 1990 | Buried:
| | Family: Acland |
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