Lieutenant-Commander Sir Harry Warden Stanley Chilcott, (11 March 1871 – 8 March 1942), also known as Warden Chilcott, was Conservative MP for

Liverpool Walton Liverpool, Walton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Dan Carden of the Labour Party. Carden won the highest percentage share of the vote in June 2017 of 650 constituencies, 85.7%. It is th ...

. During the First World War, he served with the

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in France. A flamboyant self-made businessman and sportsman, he was elected with the backing of the Coalition government in 1918, was returned unopposed in 1922 and 1923, was elected again in 1924, and stood down in 1929. He was knighted in 1922. Chilcott was a close friend of both

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Sir Austen Chamberlain Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (twice) and was briefly ...

and Ivy Chamberlain, the couple's "infatuation" with Chilcott which was "inexplicable to almost everyone". He arranged for Chamberlain to meet foreign statesmen on his yacht ''Dolphin'', including Benito Mussolini, whom both admired. Their relationship was severed in 1935, after Chilcott behaved badly toward the Queen of Spain when Chilcott and the Chamberlains were holidaying in

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*''British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949'', FWS Craig

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