HC Deb 06 December 1972 vol 847 cc460-1W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Attorney-General when the chairman of the Bench of Magistrates at Tonbridge, Kent, was first appointed as a justice of the peace; and how long he has been chairman at Tonbridge.

The Attorney-General

The chairman of the Tonbridge Bench, Mr. F. W. E. Dawes, was appointed a justice of the peace for the County of Kent in 1949, and he was elected chairman of the bench from 1st January, 1970.