Sir Charles Edward Warde, 1st Baronet (20 December 1845 – 12 April 1937) was a

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politician in

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who served as a

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(MP) from 1892 to 1918. He was born in Ireland, the son of General Sir Edward Warde and his wife Jane Lane. He was elected to the

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at his first attempt, at the 1892 general election, for the Medway constituency, and held that seat until the constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election. He did not stand for

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again. He was an officer in the

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, and on 13 September 1899 was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in command of the

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. He was granted the honorary rank of

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on 31 January 1900. In 1908, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

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. He was made a

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on 11 September 1919, of

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in the Parish of Teston in the County of Kent. He died in 1937 in Barham Court, after which the baronetcy became extinct. He had married Helen Caroline de Stern.

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