David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon

The Right Honourable
The Lord Stoddart of Swindon
The Right Honourable The Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	Official portrait, 2017
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury; Government Whip
	In office; 4 April 1976 – 18 November 1977
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	In office; 26 October 1983 – 14 November 2020; Life peerage
Member of Parliament; for Swindon
	In office; 18 June 1970 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Christopher Ward
Succeeded by	Simon Coombs
Personal details
Born	David Leonard Stoddart; 4 May 1926
Died	14 November 2020 (aged 94)
Political party	Independent Labour (2001–2020); Labour (1947–2001);
Spouse	Jennifer Percival-Alwyn (m. 1961)
Children	3
Education	St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Grammar School for Boys; Henley Grammar School;

David Leonard Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon (4 May 1926 – 14 November 2020) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon from 1970 to 1983, and as a life peer in the House of Lords from 1983 to his death in 2020. He served as a Labour peer from 1983 to 2002, when he was expelled from the Labour benches, after which he sat as an Independent Labour peer until his death.

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