Jasper More

Who was Jasper More?

Sir Jasper More was a British Conservative Party politician, the son of Sir Thomas Jasper Mytton More, a Shropshire landowner, and Lady Norah Browne, daughter of Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo.

More was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, becoming a barrister, called by Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple in 1930. His career at the bar ended with the outbreak of World War II. He was a civilian employee of the Ministry of Economic Warfare and the Ministry of Aircraft Production and Light Metals Control until 1942, was commissioned as an Army legal officer on the General List in 1943, and was in Italy until 1945 and with the military government of the Dodecanese until 1946. In 1944, he married Clare Hope-Edwards, also a Shropshire landowner. They had no children.

He was a landowner and farmer and chaired the Shropshire branch of the Country Landowners' Association 1955–60. He became a Shropshire County Councillor in 1958, and was later a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace.

During the 1960s More joined the Conservative Monday Club, and he was elected Member of Parliament for Ludlow in a 1960 by-election, a seat he held until 1979, preceding Eric Cockeram.