Peter Eckersley
Cricket Player
1904 – 1940
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Who was Peter Eckersley?
Peter Thorp Eckersley was the captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1929 to 1935, who retired for a career as a Conservative Party politician. He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for Manchester Exchange.
He died in 1940 in a flying accident near Eastleigh, Hampshire whilst serving with the Fleet Air Arm, becoming the fourth MP to be killed in World War II. A stained glass window to his memory is in Chowbent Unitarian Chapel in Atherton.
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