Sir Charles Dixon Kimber, 3rd Baronet (7 January 1912 – 10 April 2008) was one of the
Kimber baronets.
Early life and education
Charles Dixon Kimber was born at
Godstone
Godstone is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Surrey, England, east of Reigate at the junction of the A22 road, A22 and A25 road, A25 roads, near the M25 motorway and the North Downs. Godstone railway station is separate ...
, Surrey, on 7 January 1912. His father was
Henry Dixon Kimber. He was educated at
Eton College and
Balliol College, Oxford, where he read history. He was at the debate at the
Oxford Union in 1933 where the House resolved that it would
not fight for King and Country. He was a
conscientious objector
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during the Second World War during which he ran a
market garden
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in Devon. He was secretary of the Labour Party in Totnes.
[Obituary: Sir Charles Kimber, Bt.]
''The Telegraph'', 22 April 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
Marriage
Kimber first married Ursula Bird, the daughter of a member of parliament with whom he had three sons. In 1950, he married Margaret Bazalgette (née Bonham) and the couple had a son and a daughter. The couple divorced in the early 1960s.
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Career
Kimber succeeded to the baronetcy in 1950. His father's son by his first marriage was killed in the First World War.[
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Death
Charles Dixon Kimber died on 10 April 2008. He was survived by two of his sons from his first marriage, and by his daughter from his second marriage. His eldest son, Sir Timothy Roy Henry Kimber, succeeded to the baronetcy.[
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References
1912 births
2008 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
People from Godstone
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
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