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Arthur Montagu Brookfield
In office 1885–1903
Born (1853-03-18 ) 18 March 1853Died 3 March 1940(1940-03-03) (aged 86 ) Political party Conservative
Arthur Montagu Brookfield, KGStJ (18 March 1853 – 3 March 1940) was a British Army officer, diplomat, author and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1903.
Biography
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Brookfield was the son of Rev. William Henry Brookfield , curate of St. Luke's, Berwick Street, and Jane Octavia , daughter of Sir Charles Elton, 6th Baronet . He was educated at Rugby School and Jesus College, Cambridge .[1] He served as a lieutenant in the 13th Hussars in India and retired from the regular army in 1880. He was Colonel commanding the 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers and was a JP for Sussex .[2]
At the 1885 general election , Brookfield was elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP ) for Rye .[3]
In parliament he was responsible for the Uniforms Act of 1894. During his time in parliament, he commanded a battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry in the Second Anglo-Boer War .[4]
Brookfield left his parliamentary seat in 1903 to become British Consul at Montevideo ,[5] and in 1904 transferred as Consul to Danzig , then in West Prussia.[6] In 1910 he became British Consul at Savannah, Georgia , which was a shipping point for the cotton trade between the U.S. and Great Britain.
He was appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England (KGStJ) in August 1901.[7]
Bibliography
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Brookfield wrote five novels, a book of advice on giving speeches and an autobiographic sketch:
The Bachelor (1879)
Post Mortem: A Story (1881)
The Autobiography of Thomas Allen V3 (1882)
The Apparition (1884)
Simiocracy (1884)
The Speaker's ABC (1892)
Annals of a chequered life (1930)
Family
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Brookfield married in 1877 Olive Harriet Hamilton, daughter of James Murray Hamilton of Preston, N.B. and of Buffalo, U.S.A.[2] His brother Charles Brookfield was an actor playwright and journalist.
References
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^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1989]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 407. ISBN 0-900178-27-2 .
^ South African War
^ "No. 27530" . The London Gazette . 27 February 1903. p. 1336.
^ "No. 27734" . The London Gazette . 11 November 1904. p. 7261.
^ "No. 27344" . The London Gazette . 9 August 1901. p. 5256.
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