Thomas E. Sotheron-Estcourt
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Captain Thomas Edmund Sotheron-Estcourt JP
(27 April 1881 - 25 January 1958) was a British Army officer and a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1935.
He married Anne Evelyn Anson on 10 October 1912. He served with the Royal Scots Greys in the First World War before he was retired from the Army in September 1919 following injuries he received on active service.
At the 1931 general election
he was elected as Member of Parliament
(MP) for Pontefract
. He held the seat until the 1935 general election
when it was taken by the Labour Party
candidate Adam Hills.
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(27 April 1881 - 25 January 1958) was a British Army officer and a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1935.
He married Anne Evelyn Anson on 10 October 1912. He served with the Royal Scots Greys in the First World War before he was retired from the Army in September 1919 following injuries he received on active service.
At the 1931 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1931
The United Kingdom general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It was also the last election, and the only one under universal suffrage, where one party received an absolute majority of the votes cast.The 1931 general election was the...
he was elected as Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
(MP) for Pontefract
Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)
Pontefract was an English parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons briefly in the 13th century and again from 1621 until 1885, and one member from 1885 to 1974.-In the unreformed...
. He held the seat until the 1935 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1935
The United Kingdom general election held on 14 November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin. The greatest number of MPs, as before, were Conservative, while the National Liberal vote held steady...
when it was taken by the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
candidate Adam Hills.