John Cator, JP, DL (24 September 1862 – 27 April 1944) was Conservative MP for

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. The head of an old family with Quaker antecedents whose members included John Cator, MP between 1772 and 1793, Cator was educated was educated at

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. He stood unsuccessfully in 1906, won the seat from the Liberals in January 1910, and held it in December 1910. His seat was abolished in 1918. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1920–21. His daughter Elizabeth Margaret married Captain The Hon. Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes-Lyon, brother of

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*'' Whitaker's Almanack'', 1907 to 1918 editions * Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politics of Huntingdonshire 1862 births 1944 deaths English justices of the peace High Sheriffs of Norfolk People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Deputy Lieutenants {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub