Charles Simeons

Charles Fitzmaurice Creighton Simeons DL (22 September 1921 – 3 August 2014) was a British Conservative Party politician and pollution control consultant.

Early life and career Simeons was born in 1921, the son of Charles and Vera Simeons. He was educated at Oundle School and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he boxed and won an athletics blue. During the Second World War he joined the 52nd Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery, serving with the 8th Indian Division in the Middle East and at the headquarters of North-East Africa Command, prior to being demobilised as a major in 1946. Before his election to parliament in 1970 he was the managing director of British Gelatine, which supplied products and materials for the photographic industry from its base in Luton.