Sir John Ralph Starkey, 1st Baronet (1 May 1859 – 13 November 1940) was a British

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politician.

Life

He was elected as

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(MP) for

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at the 1906 general election, and held the seat until he retired from the

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at the 1922 general election. In 1910, his gardener planted the first commercial orchard of

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s at Starkey's Norwood Park estate. It was still in cultivation by the family in 2017. Starkey was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

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in 1906, and was made a

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in July 1935, of Norwood Park in the parish of Southwell and County of Nottingham. He died in 1940.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Starkey, John 1859 births 1940 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922