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Jun 08, 1915 Died on 21 Jul 2004 (aged 89)
British politician
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About Julian Ridsdale
- Sir Julian Errington Ridsdale (8 June 1915 – 21 July 2004) was a British National Liberal and later Conservative politician and long-serving Member of Parliament (MP) for Harwich.
- He took a particular interest in Japan. The son of a stockbroker and nephew both of former Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Liberal MP Sir Aurelian Ridsdale, he was educated at Tonbridge School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
- After being commissioned as an officer into the Royal Norfolk Regiment, he studied Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies and during the war was a military intelligence officer specialising in Japan, rising to the rank of Major. After the war, he ran a fruit farm in Sussex.
- His wife Victoire Evelyn Patricia "Paddy" Bennett, whom he married in 1942, was then secretary to the writer Ian Fleming.
- She is reported to have been a model for the character Miss Moneypenny, secretary to James Bond.
- She was her husband's secretary and chairman of the Conservative MPs' Wives, and was awarded the DBE in 1991.
