Harold Benjamin Soref (18 December 1916 – 14 March 1993) was twice a Conservative parliamentary candidate before being elected Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom for Ormskirk, Lancashire, in the 1970 General Election. He subsequently lost that seat to Labour in February 1974. He was a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club.
Harold Soref was the son of Paul Soref, a Romanian-born merchant shipper, and his wife Zelma (née Goodm...
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Harold Benjamin Soref (18 December 1916 – 14 March 1993) was twice a Conservative parliamentary candidate before being elected Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom for Ormskirk, Lancashire, in the 1970 General Election. He subsequently lost that seat to Labour in February 1974. He was a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club.
Harold Soref was the son of Paul Soref, a Romanian-born merchant shipper, and his wife Zelma (née Goodman), who lived at Hampstead in London. Harold was educated at Hall School, Hampstead, and St.Paul's School, Hammersmith, before going up to Queen's College, Oxford. In World War II, he served with the Royal Scots regiment and with the Intelligence Corps, 1940-1946.
Despite being Jewish (he was later a member of the council of the Anglo-Jewish Association and wrote a number of articles on aspects of Jewish history in Britain and the Commonwealth), Soref had allegedly been, in his youth, a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists...
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