George Douglas Cochrane Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley, (14 July 1879 – 2 September 1942) was a Conservative Party politician in the

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. He was appointed

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for 1909. Following the First World War, he joined the Rural Reconstruction in the Department of the

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. He was invested as a Knight Commander of the

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in the

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. He was then elected as Member of Parliament for

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at a by-election in 1922 following the

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of the Conservative MP Sir

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. Newton retained the seat at the 1922 general election, and was re-elected at four further elections until he was elevated to the

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in 1934 as Baron Eltisley, of Croxton in the County of Cambridge. The title became extinct on his death in September 1942, aged 63. Newton married Muriel Mary Georgina Duke (1888–1953) in 1905. Their daughter the Honourable Myra Newton was first wife of Sir Gifford Fox MP.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Newton, George 1879 births 1942 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Eltisley, George Douglas Cochrane Newton, 1st Baron UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs who were granted peerages High sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Eltisley, Geroge Newton, 1st Baron Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Barons created by George V