Sir Philip Albert Muntz, 1st Baronet (5 January 1839 – 21 December 1908) was an English businessman and politician who sat in the

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from 1884 to 1906. Muntz was the son of

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of Umberslade Hall,

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and his wife Eliza Price. He was a J.P. for

. In 1881 he built Dunsmore House, a three-storey

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country house near

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. In 1884, Muntz was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwickshire North but the constituency was abolished under the

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. He was elected as MP for Tamworth at the 1885 general election, and held the seat until his death in 1908 aged 69. It was announced that he would receive a

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in the

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list published on 26 June 1902 for the (subsequently postponed) coronation of

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, and on 24 July 1902 he was created a Baronet, of Dunmore, near Rugby, in the parish of Clifton-on-Dunmore, in the county of

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. Muntz married his cousin Rosalie Muntz, daughter of Philip Henry Muntz in 1859.

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, ''Marriages'' 20 June 1859

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