Sir Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho (20 April 1882 – 18 December 1969) was a Cornish landowner and politician. He was Chairman of

Cornwall County Council Cornwall County Council ( kw, Konteth Konsel Kernow) was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in south west England. It came into its powers on 1 April 1889 and was abolished on 1 April 2009. History Cornwall County Counc ...

from 1941 to 1952 and

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from 1936 to 1962, for some years serving in both roles simultaneously.

Life

The elder son of Captain Edward Alverne Bolitho,

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of Trewidden, and the grandson of Thomas Simon Bolitho of Trengwainton, Bolitho was educated at Harrow and the

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.‘BOLITHO, Lt-Col Sir Edward Hoblyn Warren’’, in ''Who Was Who'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2008
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, December 2007, accessed 20 April 2012 Bolitho was commissioned into the

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in 1900 and served in the

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of 1914 to 1918, in which he was twice

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and twice wounded. He was honoured with the

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in 1919 and later that year retired from the regular army later, but continued to serve in the Territorial Army; he was President of the Cornwall TA Association 1936–62 and Honorary Colonel of the 56th (Cornwall) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1937. After serving as

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for 1931–32, Bolitho was Chairman of

from 1941 to 1952, as well as Chairman of the China Clay Council from 1951 to 1963. His distinguished career was recognised by appointments as a

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, a

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, and a

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. Bolitho married firstly, in 1914, Agnes Hamilton, a daughter of G Randall Johnson, and they had one son and one daughter; soon after his first wife's death in 1950 he married secondly Sheila Désirée (died 23 November 2017), only daughter of

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Robert Bourne MP and Lady Hester Bourne. Sir Edward died on 18 December 1969. His uncle, Thomas Robins Bolitho, (1840-1925), an English banker, who served as

in 1890, bequeathed Trengwainton, a

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near

Penzance Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...

, to him.

Popular culture

Douglas Reeman Douglas Edward Reeman (15 October 1924 – 23 January 2017), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars. He ...

, a historical novelist who, under the pseudonym Alexander Kent, wrote a series of naval novels set during the Age of Sail about a British officer called Richard Bolitho. Reeman has stated that the name Richard Bolitho was borrowed from Colonel Bolitho's brother, "a distinguished old chap" he had met in the Channel Islands when Reeman sailed his boat there.

Honours

Order of the British Empire (Civil) Ribbon

KBE (1953) * Order of the Bath UK ribbon

CB (1943) * Dso-ribbon

DSO (1919) * Order of St John (UK) ribbon -vector

KStJ The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (french: l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of ...

(1952) Sir Edward was also a JP and a County Alderman ( CA) for Cornwall. Sir Edward Received the Freedom of the Town of

on 25 April 1958.

References

External links

www.burkespeerage.com
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