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Sir Arnold Gridley is a former MP for Stockport South.

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Former MP for Stockport South

Entered the House of Commons on 14 November 1935 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 10 January 1955 — unknown

Also represented Stockport

Future MPs in this constituency

• Harold Steward
• Maurice Orbach
• Tom McNally

Recent appearances

• Highway Code 8 Nov 1954

  It is such a long time since I ventured to address the House, owing to my absence through illness, that I feel almost as nervous as I did nearly 20 years ago, when I made a most inferior maiden speech. But my excuse, if one be needed, for venturing to address hon. and right hon. Members for a few moments this afternoon is that I have been an owner-driver for about 48 years and that during...

• Highway Code 8 Nov 1954

  I mention that fact in no spirit of boastfulness, but I thank Providence that during the whole of my journeys I have never yet injured a human being. The only person injured was myself on one occasion, which kept me from the House for a few weeks, and my sum and substance of killing animals is two dogs. I think, therefore, that I may claim modestly that in all that period I have not been a...

• Orders of the Day — Electricity Reorganisation (Scotland) Bill 3 Feb 1954

  It is with more than a little trepidation that I venture to be impudent enough to intervene in a Scottish debate, but as this Bill deals with a subject with which —if I may understate it—I am not unfamiliar, I felt that it might be useful if, speaking from some experience, I dealt shortly with some of the points which have been raised. It is not for me to answer the queries from the...

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