John Cordle

Cordle, the son of Ernest William Cordle, was educated at the City of London School and became managing director of E. W. Cordle and Son Ltd. in 1946. He was also a member of Lloyd's of London. He served as a member of the Church Assembly 1946–53, as a director of the Church Society from 1951 and of the Church of England Newspaper from 1959.

Cordle contested The Wrekin in 1951. He was Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East and Christchurch from 1959 to 1974, and after boundary changes, for Bournemouth East from 1974 to 1977, when he resigned as a result of the John Poulson scandal. David Atkinson was elected as his successor in the subsequent by-election.

Cordle was married three times. He was first married in 1938 (divorced 1956) to Grace Lucy Walkey (1918-2021); by this marriage, he had issue (four sons and a daughter), of whom only two (or three) sons outlived him. He married secondly in 1957 (divorced 1971) to Venetia Caroline Maynard (b. 22 March 1936),^[1] daughter of Lt-Col. Alister Maynard, by whom he had issue (one son and three daughters), including Marina, Viscountess Cowdray. He married thirdly in 1976 to Terttu Heikura,^[1] his children's nanny who was 35 years his junior, by whom he had two sons.^[2]

Footnotes

References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• The Times obituary, 24 November 2004. Retrieved 17 November 2008.
• Daily Telegraph obituary 24 November 2004. Retrieved 17 November 2008.
• Andrew Roth. The Guardian obituary 25 November 2004. Retrieved 17 November 2008.
• John Barnes. The Independent obituary 9 December 2004. Retrieved 17 November 2008.
• Genealogy of Grace Lucy Walkey, the first Mrs Cordle Archived 26 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Cordle