Maurice Petherick (5 October 1894 – 4 August 1985) was a British
Conservative Party
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politician who served as the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Penryn & Falmouth from 1931 to 1945, and as
Financial Secretary to the War Office
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, briefly, in 1945.
Early life
He was born on 5 October 1894, the son of George Tallack Petherick (b. 1860) and Edith Petherick, his wife. He was educated at
Marlborough College
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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.
Military service
During the
Great War
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, he was a Second Lieutenant in the
Royal Devon Yeomanry
The Royal Devon Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1920. It participated in the Second World War and now forms a squadron of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
History Formation
Following the experience of the First World Wa ...
1914 but was invalided out in 1915. He served in
Foreign Office
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, 1916–17; he was recommissioned
Royal Scots Greys
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, 1917 and served in France, 1918. In October 1939, he was recommissioned to the
General List Army, as a Captain and promoted to Temporary Major.
Parliamentary service
Having contested the parliamentary seat of
Penryn & Falmouth in 1929, as a Conservative, he was elected as MP in that division in the General Elections of
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
and
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
He was one of the MPs, who, in 1945, opposed the
Yalta agreement
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, because of the treatment of
Poland
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. He was
Financial Secretary to the War Office
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from 26 May 1945 to 4 August 1945, in the
"Caretaker Government".
In the
1945 General Election, he was defeated by the Labour candidate,
Evelyn King.
Other activities
Between 1953 and 1971, he was a Director of the
Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd. He was
High Sheriff of Cornwall
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in 1957. He wrote two novels and a collective biography of "rogues".
He died on 4 August 1985. At his death, his residence was Porthpean House,
Lower Porthpean
Lower Porthpean is a coastal hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It is close to Higher Porthpean and south of St Austell
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St ...
,
St Austell
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St Austell is one of the largest towns in Cornwall; at the 2011 census it had a population of 19,958.
History
St Austell wa ...
, Cornwall. The garden that he developed there is still famous.
Publications
*1932: ''Captain Culverin''. London: Ernest Benn (novel)
*1943: ''Victoire: a novel''. London: Macmillan
*1951: ''Restoration Rogues''; with plates, including portraits. London: Hollis & Carter (On
Thomas Blood
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,
William Bedloe
William Bedloe (20 April 165020 August 1680) was an English fraudster and Popish Plot informer.
Life
He was born at Chepstow in Monmouthshire. He was probably the son of Isaac Bedloe, himself the son of an Irish Army officer, and a cousin of Wi ...
,
Ralph Montagu,
Thomas Dangerfield
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,
Edward Fitzharris
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) and
Barbara Villiers
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.)
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1894 births
1985 deaths
English gardeners
People educated at Marlborough College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Politicians from Cornwall
Royal Scots Greys officers
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army personnel of World War II
People from St Austell
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1931–1935
UK MPs 1935–1945
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Penryn and Falmouth
High Sheriffs of Cornwall
War Office personnel in World War II
Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945