John Lees-Jones [SEP] date of death
John Lees-Jones
John Lees-Jones (25 September 1887 – 13 January 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician.
He was first elected to Parliament October 27, at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Manchester Blackley constituency, and he was re-elected at the 1935 election. At the 1945 general election, he was defeated by Labour's John Diamond and left office on the June 15
References.
- UK Parliament page
afterwards adopted, being called THE MANOR OF LEESCOURT, alias SHELDWICH. It was the previously mentioned Sir John Norton of Northwood who alienated this manor to Sir Richard Sondes, of Throwley, whose son Sir George Sondes, K. B. succeeding him in it, pulled down a great part of the old mansion of Lees-court, soon after the death of King Charles I. He then completed the present mansion of Lees-court, the front of which is built after a design of Inigo Jones, to which he afterwards removed from