Henry Staveley Staveley-Hill (22 May 1865 – 25 March 1946) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. The son of the Conservative politician

Alexander Staveley Hill Alexander Staveley Hill (21 May 1825 – 25 June 1905) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1868 to 1900, representing Coventry, Staffordshire West and Kingswinford. Hill was born ...

, Hill (who assumed by Royal Licence the name of Staveley in 1906) was educated at

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and

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, where he rowed for the college. He was

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at the

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in 1891, and practiced on the Oxford circuit. Following in the steps of his father, he became first

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(1903–22) and Conservative Member of Parliament for

Kingswinford Kingswinford is a town of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the English West Midlands, situated west-southwest of central Dudley. In 2011 the area had a population of 25,191, down from 25,808 at the 2001 Census. The current economic focus ...

(1905–18), after winning the 1905 Kingswinford by-election. During the First World War, Staveley-Hill commanded the 2/1st

Staffordshire Yeomanry The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) was a unit of the British Army. Raised in 1794 following Prime Minister William Pitt's order to raise volunteer bodies of men to defend Great Britain from foreign invasion, the Staffordshir ...

, with the rank of

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, then became Superintending Officer, Labour Corps,

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. Staveley-Hill was appointed a

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judge in 1918. He resigned in 1928, after an order in bankruptcy had been made against him.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Staveley-Hill, Henry UK MPs 1900–1906 1946 deaths English barristers 20th-century English judges People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Members of the Middle Temple Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Staffordshire Yeomanry officers UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 English justices of the peace Deputy Lieutenants of Staffordshire Royal Pioneer Corps officers British Army personnel of World War I 1865 births County Court judges (England and Wales)