Colonel
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Sir John Wakefield Weston, 1st Baronet (13 June 1852 – 19 September 1926) was a British soldier and
Conservative Party
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politician.
Weston sat as the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Kendal
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between 1913 and 1918,. When the constituency was abolished, he sat as the member for
Westmorland
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between 1918 and 1924. In July 1926 he was created a baronet, of Kendal in the County of Westmorland.
Weston died in September 1926, aged 71, when the baronetcy became extinct.
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1852 births
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UK MPs 1910–1918
UK MPs 1918–1922
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1923–1924
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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