Robert Hunt Stapylton Dudley Lydston Newman, 1st Baron Mamhead (27 October 1871 – 2 November 1945), known as Sir Robert Newman, Bt, between 1892 and 1931, was a British politician. He was also a president of the

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Background

Newman was the son of Sir Lydston Newman, 3rd Baronet. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in December 1892, aged 23.thepeerage.com Robert Hunt Stapylton Dudley Lydston Newman, 1st and last Baron Mamhead
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Political career

Newman was

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for

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between 1918 and 1931. He sat as a

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from 1918 to 1927 and as an independent from 1927 to 1931. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and

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and a member of the

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. In the

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he was raised to the peerage as Baron Mamhead, of Exeter in the County of Devon.

Personal life

Lord Mamhead never married. He died in November 1945, aged 74, when the barony became extinct. The baronetcy was passed on to a cousin.

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