Carlyon Bellairs

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Commander Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs (15 March 1871 – 22 August 1955) was a British naval commander and politician.

Bellairs was Member of Parliament (MP) for King's Lynn from 1906 until January 1910. He was elected as a Liberal but defected to the Unionists (Conservatives) in 1909.

He was elected onto the London County Council in 1913 as a Municipal Reform party member for Lewisham. (He resigned 27 April 1915 when elected MP for Maidstone)

At a by-election in 1915, he was returned as MP for Maidstone, and held the seat until the 1931 election.

He was also a member of the Coefficients dining club of social reformers set up in 1902 by the Fabian campaigners Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Gibson Bowles
Member of Parliament for King's Lynn
1906January 1910
Succeeded by
Thomas Gibson Bowles
Preceded by
Viscount Castlereagh
Member of Parliament for Maidstone
19151931
Succeeded by
Sir Alfred Bossom