Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Hunloke TD (27 December 1906 – 13 January 1978) was a British Conservative politician.

Early life

Hunloke was born in

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, the only son of

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and the former Sylvia Heseltine. He had two siblings, Alberta Diana Hunloke (wife of Sir George Paynter) and Joan Cecil Hunloke (wife of banker Philip Fleming, uncle of

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, the creator of

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).Hammond, Peter W., editor, ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda'' (Stroud,

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, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 669 His maternal grandfather was the painter and art collector

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. His paternal grandparents were Capt. Philip Perceval and the former Ernestine Wellington Sidney (a daughter of

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, herself the eldest illegitimate daughter of

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through his relationship with Dorothea Jordan).

Career

Hunloke was a keen amateur

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er and played

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for

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on eleven occasions from 1926 to 1928. Hunloke was elected as a Conservative

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for West Derbyshire in

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, resigning in 1944. He was awarded the

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.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes.'' Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 132.

Personal life

On 28 November 1929, he married Lady Anne Cavendish at St Margaret's, Westminster. Lady Anne was the youngest daughter of

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. Before their divorce in 1945 on the grounds of his adultery, they lived at Montagu Square, London, and had three children: * Phillipa Victoria Hunloke (1930–2005), who married William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, a son of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor and

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. * Timothy Henry Hunloke (b. 1932), an officer in the

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.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. volume 1, page 1131. * Nicholas Victor Hunloke (b. 1939), married Lady Katherine Montagu, a daughter of Victor Montagu, 10th Earl of Sandwich. After their divorce, his wife remarried to

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MP, and, after his death, the 10th Earl of Sandwich (who was the father of their son's wife). He married again to Virginia Archer Clive, daughter of

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(a grandson of

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) and the former Alice Muriel Dallas, on 19 May 1945. They lived at St. Catherine's Lodge in

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and Pendower House in

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. They had two children before their divorce in 1972: * Clare Hunloke (1947–1964), who died at age 17. * Sarah Hunloke (b. 1949), who married Antonio Corrêa de Sá, son of José Corrêa de Sá, 2nd Viscount de São Luis. He later made a third marriage, to Ruth Holdsworth, before he died in

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on 13 January 1978, aged 71.

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