Sir Percy Wilson Newson, 1st Baronet (4 April 1874 – 17 May 1950) was a British

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and

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merchant in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. Newson was born in

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

, the son of Georgina Martha and William Henry Newson. He was senior partner with Jardine, Skinner & Co in

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

and also became president of the

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in 1920 and Governor of the

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in 1921. He was

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in the 1920 New Year Honours and created a

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in the

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. He served as Conservative

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for Tamworth from 1922 to 1923. He was the maternal grandfather of English explorer

Ranulph Fiennes Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes () and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records. Fiennes served in the ...

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* 1874 births 1950 deaths Businesspeople from Suffolk British bankers Indian bankers Businesspeople from Kolkata Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Knights Bachelor UK MPs 1922–1923 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1870s-stub