Richard Tufnell

Richard Lionel Tufnell was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Richard Tufnell was son of Edward Tufnell, Member of Parliament for South East Essex (UK [Parliament constituency)|South East Essex], and his wife Ellen Bertha Gubbins. His grandfather was the civil servant and educationalist Edward Carleton Tufnell. He was educated at the Royal Naval Colleges at Royal [Naval College, Osborne|Osborne] and Dartmouth and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took an MA.
He was elected as the member of parliament for Cambridge at a by-election in 1934, following the ennoblement of the Conservative MP Sir George Newton as Baron Eltisley.
Tufnell retained the seat at the 1935 [United Kingdom general election|1935 general election], but ten years later at the 1945 [United Kingdom general election|1945 general election], he lost his seat to Arthur Symonds of the Labour Party.