sentences:  He was also director of a private banking company and became Pro-Chancellor of the University of Sussex.At the 1970 general election, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the marginal seat of The Wrekin, but lost his seat in the February 1974 general election to Labour Party candidate Gerald Fowler, whom he had defeated in 1970.Trafford was on hospital duty at the time of the Brighton hotel bombing of the Conservative Party conference in 1984 and had a leading role in treating the casualties who were taken in first instance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital.