13 OCTOBER 1950, Page 3

Inconspicuous in appearance, Sir John Jarvis, who sat for Guildford

from 1935 to the last General Election, made no great impresssion on the House of Commons in debate. But his looks belied him, for he held the considerable position of Chairman of Armstrong-Whitworth, and he will live long in the memory of Tynesiders for the imagination and practical vigour with which he called Surrey to the aid of a Jarrow plunged into unemployment and poverty by the closing of Palmer's shipyard in 1933. With money raised in his own and neighbouring constituencies he succeeded in starting five new industries in the Jarrow area, giving employment thereby to 5,000 men. jt was a notable and unique undertaking, for which any man might be glad to be remembered. * *