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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall (3 October 1877 – 29 October 1953) was a British
Conservative Party
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politician who served as
Member of Parliament
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for
Lewisham East
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History
Lewisham East was created for the 1918 general election. ...
from
1918
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Events
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to
1945
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Januar ...
.
Pownall was born in
Warwick
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, Warwickshire, the son of civil engineer Charles Assheton Whately Pownall and Dora Bourne Royds. He was the grandson of the Ven.
Assheton Pownall
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall (3 October 1877 – 29 October 1953) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Lewisham East from 1918 to 1945.
Pownall was born in Warwick, Warwickshire, the so ...
, Archdeacon of Leicester. Pownall was educated at
Rugby School
Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up ...
.
He began his political career sitting on the London City Council for Lewisham from 1907 to 1910. In the
General elections of January and
December 1910
The following events occurred in December 1910:
December 1, 1910 (Thursday)
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, he ran unsuccessfully for
Rotherhithe
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. After the First World War, when he served with the
20th Battalion, The London Regiment, he was elected for Lewisham East in 1918.
In the
1919 Birthday Honours
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, he was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
in recognition of services in connection with the war.
Pownall was noted for his arduous work on committees.
Pownall was knighted in the
1926 Birthday Honours
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, for political and public services.
During the late 1930s, Pownall was a member of the
Anglo-German Fellowship
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. He belonged to the moderate tendency within the Fellowship, stating that it existed "only to promote good relations between us and Germany" and was in no way in favour of
Nazism
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.
[Richard Griffiths, ''Fellow Travellers on the Right'', Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 184]
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1877 births
1953 deaths
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
Knights Bachelor
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Rugby School
Politicians awarded knighthoods