Which Conservative, the MP for Louth and Horncastle, elected in 1966, is the Father of the House of Commons?
Horncastle total population taken at the 2011 Census of 7,073. Horncastle has always been a very safe area for the Conservative Party, except for two years in the early 1920s, when it had Liberal Party representation. It had its eponymous parliamentary constituency for 98 years from 1885 to 1983. It was then Gainsborough and Horncastle and since 1997, Louth and Horncastle. Henry Haslam served as MP during the Second World War and the five years of the Churchill Wartime Government. The veteran politician Sir Peter Tapsell was MP for the town from 1966 to 1983 and from 1997 to 2015, being
Louth and Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency) standing down, he was the longest-serving Conservative MP, albeit with the break in service, and was the only MP of any party first elected in the 1950s. Following the retirement of Alan Williams, Tapsell became, on his re-election in 2010, Father of the House. He was succeeded in the honorific position in 2015 by Sir Gerald Kaufman. "Before 1997, see East Lindsey" Louth and Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency) Louth and Horncastle is a constituency in Lincolnshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Victoria Atkins, a Conservative. 1997–2010: The District of East Lindsey wards of Alford,