Roy Wise

Alfred Roy Wise (7 July 1901 – 21 August 1974) was a British Conservative Party politician and was the Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Rugby and Smethwick.

Biography He was born on 7 July 1901 to Alfred Gascoyne Wise and Augusta Frances Nugent. His father was a judge for the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, and his brother was Percival Kinnear Wise. He was educated at Repton and Oriel College, Oxford. He was a falmboyant character and something of a dandy as a young man.

He married Cassandra Coke and had one son, Group Captain Adam Nugent Wise LVO MBE RAF, born 1943.

He served in Kenya as Assistant District Commissioner from 1923 and 1926. He unsuccessfully contested Smethwick in 1929, losing to Oswald Mosley.

During his time out of the Commons, he was attached to the Foreign Office serving with the British Intelligence Service in Germany until 1953

Wise was re-elected at the 1964 election with a slightly increased majority of 1,689. However, at the 1966 general election he lost the seat to the Labour candidate, William Price by a margin of only 409 votes.

He was one of the sitting MPs who became serving officers in 1939 rising to Lieutenant-Colonel with the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).