Sir Mervyn Edward Manningham-Buller, 3rd Baronet (16 January 1876 – 22 August 1956) was a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament (MP).

Family

His parents were Major-General Edmund Manningham-Buller and Lady Anne Coke. He married Lilah Constance Cavendish, daughter of Major-General Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham and Lady Beatrice Constance Grosvenor, on 8 July 1903. Their children included

Reginald Manningham-Buller Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, (1 August 1905 – 7 September 1980), known as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt, from 1954 to 1962 and as The Lord Dilhorne from 1962 to 1964, was an English lawyer and Conservative pol ...

, Attorney-General.

Military career

Mannigham-Buller was commissioned a

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in The Rifle Brigade on 9 October 1895, and was promoted to lieutenant on 25 May 1898, and to

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on 18 March 1901. He was seconded to the Imperial Yeomanry for service in the Second Boer War (1899–1901), and was 2nd in command of the 21st Battalion until he relinquished this appointment on 12 March 1902, when he returned to his regiment. Following the end of hostilities in South Africa, he return to the United Kingdom in August 1902, and resigned from the army in January 1903. He later received the rank of lieutenant-colonel.Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, Burke's Irish Family Records (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), Archdale, page 34

Political career

Between 1924 and 1929 he was Conservative Member of Parliament for Kettering. In 1931 he was elected MP for

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; he resigned in 1940 upon becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.

Death

Mervyn Manningham-Buller died in Chelsea, London, aged 80.

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