More oldest former MPs

Inspired by my recent posting, Iain Dale has been asking who the oldest surviving MPs for all the parties are.

So far the winners are:

• Conservatives: James Allason (born 6 September 1912)
• Labour: William Wilson (born 28 June 1913)
• Liberal: George Mackie, as suggested in my original posting
• Other parties: Ernest Millington (Common Wealth; born 15 February 1916)

I remember Allason being my MP when I was a small boy in Hertfordshire. He is the father of Rupert Allason, who also became a Tory MP but is better known as the writer Nigel West.

Later. There is an older living Labour MP: Ted Short, born 17 December 1912. Thanks to a comment on Michael Crick's blog for this.