Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir John Heydon Romaine Stokes, KBE (23 July 1917 27 June 2003), was a British politician and a Conservative Party Member of Parliament.The son of Victor Romaine Stokes, a stockjobber, Stokes was educated at Haileybury College and Queen's College, Oxford. He stood for election as president of the Oxford University Conservative Association on a platform of support for appeasement and General Franco; he was beaten by seven votes by future Prime Minister Edward Heath. He served as president of The Oxford Monarchists. During World War II Stokes served in the Royal Fusiliers, rising to the rank of Major. He took part in the expedition to Dakar in 1940 and was wounded in North Africa in 1943. From 1944-6 he served as military assistant to Major General Edward Spears in Beirut and Damascus.After the war Stokes joined ICI as a personnel officer, moving to British Celanese in 1951 as personnel manager and to Courtaulds in 1957 as deputy personnel manager.
