Richard Shenton
Jersey senator (1926–2013)
Richard Joseph "Dick" Shenton (25 October 1926 – 2 January 2013), born in St. Helier, was a politician in Jersey. He retired in 2005.
Biography
Richard Joseph Shenton the son of Benjamin Henry Shenton, B.E.M. and Kathleen Mary Troy. The third of seven children, he was educated at De La Salle College in Jersey. He and his family lived in Jersey throughout the five years (1940–1945) occupation by the Germans. His father was imprisoned by the occupying forces in 1944, and in 1942 and 1943 his elder brother and sister died in their teens of malnutrition and tuberculosis.
Following the liberation of the Channel Islands, he joined the Royal Air Force, serving in the Middle East and Italy until he was demobilised in 1948. After a period of working in the dock industry he met and married Jill Mason and they emigrated to Canada in 1954. After six years in Canada, he, his wife and two infant daughters returned to Jersey and he resumed his career in the dock industry, eventually taking over as managing director of the only stevedoring company, and his name has been synonymous with the docks from that time.
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