Colonel Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of ...

Sir John Wakefield Weston, 1st Baronet (13 June 1852 – 19 September 1926) was a British soldier and

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politician. Weston sat as the

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(MP) for

Kendal Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south-east of Windermere and north of Lancaster. Historically in Westmorland, it lies within the dale of th ...

between 1913 and 1918,. When the constituency was abolished, he sat as the member for

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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 1926 deaths 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 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub