Frederick Fawkes
Major Frederick Hawksworth Fawkes (1870 – 1 February 1936)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
Fawkes was the son of the Rev. Frederick Fawkes of Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire.[2] He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was admitted in 1890, and farmed at Kirby Overblow.[3] He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Pudsey and Otley division of the West Riding of Yorkshire at the 1922 general election, but retired from the House of Commons at the 1923 general election.[4] He served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1932–33.[5]
References[]
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1905). Armorial Families (5th ed.). Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack. p. 474.
- ^ "Fawkes, Frederick Hawksworth (FWKS890FH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 521. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ "No. 33809". The London Gazette. 18 March 1932. p. 1855.
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Frederick Fawkes
Categories:
- 1870 births
- 1936 deaths
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1922–1923
- People educated at Eton College
- Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- High Sheriffs of Yorkshire
- Conservative MP for England, 1870s birth stubs