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Name: Vernon Bartlett  
   
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Date of Birth: 30th April 1894
   
Place of Birth: Westbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Vernon Bartlett (30 April 1894, Tiverton, Devon - January 18, 1983) was a British politician and journalist.

After education at Blundell's School Bartlett was invalided out of the Army in WWI. As a journalist he worked for the Daily Mail, and was a foreign correspondent for The Times. In 1922 he was appointed director of the London office of the League of Nations. In 1933 he joined the News Chronicle, and was its diplomatic correspondent for 20 years.

He won the Somerset seat of Bridgwater for the United Kingdom parliament as a Popular Front candidate opposed to appeasement in a by-election held on November 18, 1938. He held the seat for 12 years.

In 1942 Vernon Bartlett, Richard Acland, J. B. Priestley and others established the socialist Common Wealth Party. At the 1945 election, he kept his Bridgwater seat, standing as an independent. He joined the Labour Party in 1950 and retired from parliament.

He retired from the News Chronicle in 1954 and moved to Singapore, where he was both political commentator for the Straits Times and South East Asia correspondent for the Manchester Guardian.

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