Thomas E. Sotheron-Estcourt
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.[1]
Estcourt was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 7th (Militia) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 11 November 1902.[2] 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.[3]
At the 1931 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract.[4] He held the seat until the 1935 general election when it was taken by the Labour Party candidate Adam Hills.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Captain Thomas Edmund Sotheron-Estcourt". The Peerage. 27 June 2004.
- ^ "No. 27497". The London Gazette. 21 November 1902. p. 7538.
- ^ "No. 31556". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 September 1919. p. 11661.
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)