Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan
OBE (27 October 1873 – 21 August 1933) was a British military officer and politician, who served as the
Conservative
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Member of Parliament for
Fulham East from 1922 until his death.
Vaughan-Morgan was educated at
Charterhouse School
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, and then studied abroad in France and Germany. He joined the family firm, the
Morgan Crucible
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Company in Battersea, and rose to become director and vice-chairman. He married Muriel Collett in 1897; the two had three children.
Following the outbreak of the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, Vaughan-Morgan was commissioned in the
Royal Army Service Corps
The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and dom ...
in 1915,
with a temporary commission as a lieutenant dating from 13 January 1915.
He became a member of the
General Staff
A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military un ...
at the War Office in 1917, and retired in 1919 as a lieutenant-colonel. Following the war, he became the
honorary colonel of the 64th Field Brigade RA in the
Territorial Army.
In the
1922 United Kingdom general election
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party. ...
he was elected to the
House of Commons
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for
Fulham East as a
Conservative
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. He held the seat until his death in 1933, when it was taken by Labour in a dramatic swing against the Government.
Vaughan-Morgan was active in civic affairs in London, and was a
deputy lieutenant for the county in 1928. He was also chair of the
London Municipal Society, a governor of
St Thomas' and
St Barts' hospitals, and a commissioner for income tax.
Vaughan-Morgan's son
John Vaughan-Morgan also entered politics, serving as a Conservative MP and later peer. One uncle,
Sir Walter Morgan, was Lord Mayor of London, and another,
Octavius Vaughan Morgan
Octavius Vaughan Morgan (1837 – 26 February 1896) was a Welsh-born Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.
The eighth son of Thomas Morgan of Pipton ...
, was a Liberal MP for Battersea.
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1873 births
1933 deaths
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1923–1924
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1929–1931
UK MPs 1931–1935
Royal Army Service Corps officers
People educated at Charterhouse School
British Army personnel of World War I
British expatriates in France
British expatriates in Germany
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire