Labour candidate, but he refused on the grounds that he would then be campaigning against people who had previously campaigned for him. A further factor was that his injuries in the crash had been severe, keeping him away from Parliament for a year, and a campaign in the scattered North Cornwall constituency might have been too great a strain. Instead he fought Exeter as the Labour candidate, but lost to the sitting Conservative MP John Cyril Maude. Horabin died in Folkestone on 26 April 1956, aged 60. Having married in 1920, he left a widow, two sons and a daughter. References Further reading “Tom Horabin” - the maverick career of the radical Liberal MP by Jaime Reynolds and Ian Hunter: Journal of Liberal History, Issue 28, Autumn 2000 "Tom Horabin remembered" – interview with Mary Wright, the daughter of Tom Horabin MP by Robert Ingham, Journal of Liberal History, Issue 53, Winter 2006-07 External links The Papers of Thomas Horabin held at Churchill Archives Centre 1896 births 1956 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for North Cornwall Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 British Army personnel of World War I Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders soldiers Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents