Education
Wells was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Master of Arts).
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John Wells
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He served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, as a seaman in 1942, commissioned in 1943 and in submarines until 1946. He was a marine engineer, company director and farmer, and was a councillor on Leamington Spa Borough Council. At the 1955 general election, Wells stood unsuccessfully in the Smethwick constituency.
He held the safe Conservative seat until his retirement at the 1987 general election, when his successor was the future minister Ann Widdecombe.
He was appointed to the Speaker"s Panel of Chairmen in 1974, becoming senior Chairman of Standing Committees in 1983 until his retirement. He became chairman of the Horticultural Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Agriculture in 1968 and was Master of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers in 1977.
Wells was portrayed by Alan Rothwell in the 2002 British Broadcasting Corporation production of Ian Curteis" controversial The Falklands Play.
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42nd United Kingdom Parliament. 43rd United Kingdom Parliament. 44th United Kingdom Parliament.
45th United Kingdom Parliament.
46th United Kingdom Parliament. 47th United Kingdom Parliament.
48th United Kingdom Parliament. 49th United Kingdom Parliament]
At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Maidstone, following in the footsteps of a 19th-century ancestor, also John Wells.
Throughout his period as a Member of Parliament, Wells was a strong supporter of country interests and the local economy, on one occasion riding his horse through the streets of Westminster and on another loudly eating a Kentish apple during a speech by a Labour Minister of Agriculture, as a protest against the import of cheap, subsidised and, in his opinion, inferior imports from France.
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