Walter Preston (British politician)
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Sir Walter Reuben Preston (20 September 1875 – 6 July 1946) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Mile End constituency in the East End of London. He lost the seat at the 1923 general election to the Labour Party candidate John Scurr.
He returned to Parliament at a by-election in September 1928 for the Cheltenham constituency, and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1937.
Career[]
Walter Reuben Preston was an engineer. He has 35 patents and some of these were obtained jointly with well-known locomotive engineers, such as Richard Deeley. Details of the patents can be found at Espacenet.[1]
Personal life[]
Educated at Bedford School,[2] Preston married Ella Margaret Morris (born 7 September 1877, died 28 January 1963) at Hayes between April and June 1900.[3] There are memorial inscriptions to both at Holy Trinity Church, Long Newnton, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Espacenet - results view". Worldwide.espacenet.com. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ "Preston, Sir Walter Reuben, (20 Sept. 1875–6 July 1946), Chairman of Platt Bros and Co. (Holdings) Ltd and of Stone-Platt Engineering Company; President of Textile Machinery Makers LTD; Director of Midland Bank Ltd".
- ^ "Genealogy - http://www.hortonpallister.co.uk/". Hortonpallister.co.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
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- ^ "Tetbury Online Message Board - Memorial Inscriptions Holy Trinity Long Newnton". Tetburyonline.proboards.com. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Walter Preston
- 1875 births
- 1946 deaths
- Knights Bachelor
- People educated at Bedford School
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1918–1922
- UK MPs 1922–1923
- UK MPs 1924–1929
- UK MPs 1929–1931
- UK MPs 1931–1935
- UK MPs 1935–1945
- Politics of Cheltenham
- Conservative MP for England, 1870s birth stubs