Cyril Lakin

Politician

1893 – 1993

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Who was Cyril Lakin?

Cyril Harry Alfred Lakin was a Welsh politician and farmer who was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Llandaff and Barry in South Wales. He won the seat at a by-election in June 1942, with a 5,655 majority over an independent Labour candidate, but was defeated at the 1945 general election by the official Labour Party candidate Lynn Ungoed-Thomas.

Lakin lived at Highlight Farm in what is now Highlight Park, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. His son, a farmer, was also named Cyril and died in the early 1990s.

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Born
Dec 29, 1893
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1993

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on July 23, 2013

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