Background
Keith Stainton was born in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of a Kendal butcher and a Belgian refugee his father had met during the First World War.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Keith Stainton was born in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of a Kendal butcher and a Belgian refugee his father had met during the First World War.
He left Kendal School at 14 and worked as an insurance clerk from 1936 until military service. In early 1940 he volunteered for the Navy and was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, into submarines and served on the famous French submarine Casabianca. From 1949 to 1952 he was a leader writer for the Financial Times.
After working as a management consultant, he joined a major food manufacturing and distribution company and became managing director and chairman.
He was a Lloyd"s underwriter specialising in maritime and aviation reinsurance. Edward Heath made him opposition spokesman on aviation in 1965.
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Stainton was Member of Parliament for Sudbury and Woodbridge from a 1963 by-election until the 1983 general election, when the seat was abolished by boundary changes.