Vyvyan Adams | |
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| Member of Parliament for Leeds West | |
| In office 27 October 1931 – 15 June 1945 | |
| Preceded by | Tom Stamford |
| Succeeded by | Tom Stamford |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 April 1900 |
| Died | 13 August 1951 (aged 51) |
| Political party | Conservative |
Samuel Vyvyan Trerice Adams (22 April 1900 – 13 August 1951), known as Vyvyan Adams, was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West from 1931[1] to 1945, when he was defeated by the swing to Labour. He stood unsuccessfully in the Fulham East constituency in 1950. He had been adopted for the safe Conservative seat of Darwen early in 1951, but died later that year.
His Times obituary was headed Intellectual Honesty and Independence. He was opposed to appeasement of Mussolini (in Abyssinia) and Hitler, and was one of the few Conservative MPs (with Leo Amery, Duff Cooper, Anthony Eden, Harold Nicolson and Winston Churchill) to oppose the Munich agreement with Hitler in 1938. He was opposed to the death penalty.
- ^ The International Who's Who 1943-44. 8th edition. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943, p. 5.