Lawrence Kimball

Major Lawrence Kimball (25 October 1900 – 30 December 1971) was a Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Loughborough between 1931 and 1945.

Life
Lawrence Kimball, born in 1900, was the son of Marcus Morton Kimball and Jeannie Lawrence Perkins, and the father of Marcus, Lord Kimball. He was educated abroad and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1926, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, and five years later was made High Sheriff of Rutland. That same year, he was elected to represent Loughborough in the House of Commons, defeating the sitting Labour MP, George Winterton. Kimball himself lost the seat by nearly 9,000 votes to Labour's Mont Follick in 1945, and afterwards retired to the family estate in Salisbury, Wiltshire.