Charles Henry Wyndham A'Court (full name Charles Henry Wyndham A'Court Repington) (14 October 1819 – 29 October 1903) was a

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politician in the

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. He was born the son of General Charles Ashe à Court-Repington of

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, Wiltshire and was admitted to

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, in 1837. He was elected at the 1852 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wilton in

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, but resigned his seat in 1855 when he was appointed as a special commissioner of property and income tax in Ireland. In his three years as an MP, Hansard records that he never made a speech. He married Emily Currie in 1854 and had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son Lieutenant Colonel

Charles à Court Repington Charles à Court Repington, (29 January 1858 – 25 May 1925), known until 1903 as Charles à Court, was an English soldier, who went on to have a second career as an influential war correspondent during the First World War. He is also credited ...

was a leading ''

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'' military correspondent.

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1819 births 1903 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1852–1857 {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub