sentences:  He was elected as a National Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk at a by-election in 1939 after the National Liberal MP Viscount Elmley had succeeded to the peerage as the 8th Earl Beauchamp.After the Woolton-Teviot agreement in 1947, The National Liberals and Conservative Party merged local party associations and fielded joint candidates.Many candidates, including Medlicott, described themselves as "Conservative and National Liberal", or other permutations of the two names.