Denzil Kingston FreethMBE (10 July 1924 – 26 April 2010) was a British Conservative politician.
Born in the Paddington area of London, Freeth was educated at Sherborne School and then served in the Royal Air Force. In 1946, he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge University he became President of the Cambridge Union.[1]
He was Member of Parliament for Basingstoke from 1955 until he stood down in 1964. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Science in 1961 and was involved in setting up the Trent Committee.
Freeth asked the first-ever question about deafblind people in the House of Commons in 1964, when he asked the Government, local authorities, and the public to give people with the condition more attention and support.[citation needed]
After leaving parliament he worked as a stockbroker. Freeth served for nearly 20 years as a Churchwarden of the leading London Anglo-Catholic Church, All Saints, Margaret Street.
^Greenfield, Edward (2010). "Denzil Freeth obituary". The Guardian. No. 12 May 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
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