Edward Tufnell (13 June 1848 – 15 August 1909) was a
British Army
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officer and
Conservative Party
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politician.
Son of the civil servant and educationalist
Edward Carleton Tufnell
Edward Carleton Tufnell (27 October 1806, Marylebone, London (then part of Middlesex) – 3 July 1886 Belgravia, London ) was an English civil servant and educationist.
Education
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, gain ...
, Tufnell was educated at
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. He then joined the
British Army
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in 1867 as an
ensign in the
39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
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before exchanging to the
18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot
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in 1870. He served in India during
Second Anglo-Afghan War and on the
Nile Expedition
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. He retired from the Army in 1889 and joined the
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms
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Formation
The corps was formed as the Troop of Ge ...
in 1894.
He was elected to the
House of Commons for
South East Essex as a Conservative in 1900, holding the seat until 1906. He was also a
justice of the peace
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for Sussex.
His son,
Richard Tufnell
Richard Lionel Tufnell (10 December 1896 – 1 October 1956) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Richard Tufnell was son of Edward Tufnell, Member of Parliament for South East Essex, and grandson of the civil servant and ...
, was Member of Parliament for Cambridge.
[Sources in British Political History 1900-1951, vol. 4: A Guide to the Private Papers of Members of Parliament: L-Z, Chris Cook, Macmillan, p. 212]
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UK MPs 1900–1906
1909 deaths
People educated at Eton College
39th Regiment of Foot officers
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
English justices of the peace
1848 births
Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for South East Essex