Anthony Bamford to the Conservative Party and donated £1m before the 2010 General Election. Altogether, Bamford has donated more than £4m personally and through JCB companies. Prime Minister David Cameron recommended Bamford for a peerage in 2010. However, Bamford withdrew his name from consideration days before the members were announced. On 3 October 2013 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Bamford, of Daylesford in the County of Gloucestershire and of Wootton in the County of Staffordshire. In June 2016, Bamford wrote a letter in support of voting to leave the European Union to his employees. JCB has donated
Cyril Dumpleton 35%. The 1935 and 1945 results were not directly comparable, because the Liberal Party contested the seat in 1945 but not 1935; but Dumpleton's 3.7% majority was vulnerable, and he was defeated at the 1950 general election, when Grimston re-took the seat with a majority of 4.5%. After his defeat, Dumpleton did not stand for Parliament again. He worked as a public relations executive with the Colonial Development Corporation from 1950 to 1962, and died at Dawlish in Devon in 1966, aged 69. Cyril Dumpleton Cyril Walter Dumpleton (25 June 1897 – 1 October 1966) was a British Labour Party