Sir Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley, 1st Baronet (27 October 1863,

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– 4 February 1937,

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) was a British

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politician. Harry Deeley was educated at

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and

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. His brother was the theatrical producer

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. He was the founder and first President of Prince's Golf Club at Mitcham. With his Cambridge University friend Percy Montagu Lucas he provided most of the capital to create new links at Sandwich, now

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, the land being donated by the Earl of Guilford. The course was designed by Charles Hutchings, the 1902 Amateur Champion, and laid out between 1904 and 1906. In 1913 he purchased the whole of the Duke of Bedford's

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estate for £2m., having already been involved in the purchase of the Piccadilly Hotel and St. James's Court, Buckingham Gate. In 1922 he famously acquired control of the large estates of the cash-strapped

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during the latter's lifetime. Fitzgerald had previously sold Mallaby-Deeley his reversionary rights to the estate for a notional consideration, not expecting, as a younger son, to inherit. Deeley was elected

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for Harrow in 1910 and for Willesden East in 1918, resigning in 1923. In 1922 he assumed the additional name of Mallaby, his mother's maiden name, by deed poll and was created a baronet (of Micham Court, Surrey).

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* 1863 births 1937 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 People educated at Shrewsbury School {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub