Arthur Duckworth

George Arthur Victor Duckworth, known as Arthur Duckworth, was a British Conservative Party politician.
He was elected as the member of parliament for Shrewsbury at the 1929 [United Kingdom general election|1929 general election]. He was re-elected in 1931 United [Kingdom general election|1931] and 1935, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons of [the United Kingdom|House of Commons] at the 1945 election.
In 1936, he won 7th place in the ballot for private member's bills, and proposed to bring forward a Medical and Surgical Appliances Bill.
He announced in April 1945 that he would not stand again at the next election.

Personal life

Duckworth married Alice Frances Hammond, a fifth-generation descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, in March 1927; they had three daughters. The couple were divorced in February 1942, on the grounds of his wife's adultery in New York; she married the American bandleader Benny Goodman; the following month.