WWI MPs
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‘Absolutely our best officer’: Valentine Fleming (1882-1917)
In the latest of our blogs on MPs killed in the First World War, Dr Kathryn Rix marks the centenary of the death of Valentine Fleming on 20 May 1917… On 25 May 1917, the obituary of Valentine Fleming, Conservative…
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MPs in World War I: Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot (1872-1916)
100 years ago yesterday the Somme claimed another MP: Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot. Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons, blogs on his life… Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot was killed in action on 25 September 1916 while serving with the Grenadier Guards…
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MPs in World War I: Charles William Reginald Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham (1879-1916)
Yesterday we marked the death of Hon. Guy Victor Baring, who died on 15 September 1916. Another former occupant of the Conservative benches in the Commons was killed in action on the same day, as Dr. Kathryn Rix records… Of the…
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‘Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor’: Thomas Michael Kettle (1880-1916)
Continuing our series of short biographies of the MPs who sadly lost their lives fighting in the First World War, today Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons, discusses the second MP to die at the Somme, Thomas Kettle… Five…
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‘The thing is to get on with the War’: Duncan Frederick Campbell (1876-1916)
Our blog today returns to our series, all written by Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons, of short biographies of the MPs who sadly lost their lives fighting in the First World War. It’s the first of several in…
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MPs in World War I: Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, Viscount Quenington (1877-1916)
Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach had served as Tewkesbury’s Conservative MP for just over a decade when he was killed in action in Egypt on 23 April 1916. He shared his first name with his father, Michael Edward Hicks-Beach (first Earl St…
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‘The hero legislator of Uxbridge’: the Hon. Charles Thomas Mills (1887-1915)
100 years ago the Battle of Loos proved deadly for a third MP, as today marks the anniversary of the seventh MP who died in fighting in the First World War. Continuing our series of short biographies of these men, Dr…
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‘One of the best’: Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart (1883-1915)
Sadly the anniversaries of MPs’ deaths in the First World War are coming at very regular intervals currently – today marks the 100th anniversary of the sixth MP who died in the fighting. Continuing our series of short biographies of…