Background
John Foot was born at Pencrebar, Callington, Cornwall, the third son of Isaac Foot (1880–1960) and his wife Eva Mackintosh (died 1946). His father was a solicitor and founder of the Plymouth law firm of Foot and Bowden.
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John Mackintosh
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University of Oxford. Balliol College.
Career
He was educated at Forres School, Swanage and then Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight. After graduation he joined the family law firm before serving in the Wessex Division, reaching the rank of Major, and also on the Headquarters Staff of the 21st Army Group during World World War World War II After the war he rejoined the family law firm and subsequently became the senior partner there following the death of his father in 1960. He first stood as a Liberal candidate in a 1934 by-election, in the safe Conservative seat of Basingstoke, and ran again there in the 1935 general election.
In both the 1945 and 1950 elections, he stood in Bodmin, being defeated by the Conservative Sir Douglas Marshall on both occasions.
He remained in the Liberal Party during the long period of its post-war decline and was subsequently made a life peer on 29 November 1967 as Baron Foot, of Buckland Monachorum in the County of Devon. He served as Chairman of the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service from 1970-1978 where he did not hesitate to criticise the Wilson Government for the inadequate fulfilment of their pledges to the persecuted Kenyan and Ugandan Asians.
He was also a robust environmental defender of Dartmoor against the expansionist ambitions of Plymouth Council.
Membership
Isaac was also an active member of the Liberal Party, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin before World World War II and the Lord Mayor of Plymouth after the war. Foot was considered by brother Michael as the best orator and the "ablest member of the family".
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Political Party
Conservative