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
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
  2. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1905). Armorial Families (5th ed.). Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack. p. 474.
  3. "Fawkes, Frederick Hawksworth (FWKS890FH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. 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.
  5. "No. 33809". The London Gazette. 18 March 1932. p. 1855.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.