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Somerset de Chair
Member of Parliament for Paddington South
In office 23 February 1950 – 4 October 1951
Preceded by
Ernest Taylor
Succeeded by
Robert Allan
Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk
In office 14 November 1935 – 15 June 1945
Preceded by
Alan McLean
Succeeded by
Sidney Dye
Personal details
Born
Somerset Struben de Chair
(1911-08-22)22 August 1911 Windsor, Berkshire, England
Died
5 January 1995(1995-01-05) (aged 83) Antigua
Political party
Conservative
Spouses
Thelma Grace Arbuthnot
(m. 1932; div. 1950)
Carmen Appleton
(m. 1950; div. 1958)
Margaret Patricia Manlove
(m. 1958; div. 1974)
Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam
(m. 1974)
Children
6
Parent(s)
Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair Enid Struben
Alma mater
Balliol College, Oxford
Profession
Author, Politician
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch/service
British Army
Rank
Captain
Unit
Royal Horse Guards
Battles/wars
Second World War
· Anglo-Iraqi War
· Battle of Palmyra
Somerset Struben de Chair (22 August 1911 – 5 January 1995) was an English author, politician, and poet. He edited several volumes of the memoirs of Napoleon.
Somerset Struben deChair (22 August 1911 – 5 January 1995) was an English author, politician, and poet. He edited several volumes of the memoirs of Napoleon...
Tobias Clarke, 6th Baronet and his second wife Teresa deChair, a daughter of SomersetdeChair. Her younger brother is former athlete Sir Lawrence Clarke...
to Charlotte Walter and then Teresa Loraine Aphrodite deChair (daughter of SomersetdeChair) (divorced). He has three children (by his second marriage):...
married firstly Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, secondly SomersetdeChair, and thirdly Dr. Christopher Tadgell Lord Nicholas Hervey (1961–1998)...
couple separated in 1965 and divorced in 1972. In 1974 she married SomersetdeChair, who was a former Conservative Member of Parliament for South West...
before passing ownership during World War II to his brother-in-law, SomersetdeChair, who in turn sold to Sir James Horlick in 1944. Horlick is recalled...
statesman Benjamin Golding (1793–1863), founder of Charing Cross Hospital SomersetdeChair (1911–1995), soldier, author, art collector and politician, owned...
Albert Hilton In office 5 July 1945 – 5 October 1951 Preceded by SomersetdeChair Succeeded by Denys Bullard Personal details Born Sidney Augustus Dye...
science fiction Elizabeth Chadwick (born 1957), historical fiction SomersetdeChair (1911–1995) Aidan Chambers (born 1934), Postcards from No Man's Land...
remarried to his 60-year-old friend, SomersetdeChair (d. 1996) by whom five years later she had a daughter, Helena dechair, who in 2007 married Jacob Rees-Mogg...
Devon, deChair married Enid, daughter of Henry William Struben, of Transvaal, South Africa. They had three children, Henry, Elaine and Somerset. Following...
subsequently sold c.1982 to Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, then wife of SomersetdeChair, MP and now of Christopher Tadgell. The house is home to the Fitzwilliam...
painter Harry Struben (1840–1915), German miner SomersetdeChair (1911–1995), full name Somerset Struben deChair, English author, politician, and poet Struben...
of Habbaniya is well described in the book, The Golden Carpet by SomersetdeChair, a British intelligence officer serving in Iraq during World War II...
North Riding of Yorkshire (1965–1974) and North Yorkshire (1974–1987) SomersetdeChair, great-great-grandson-in-law of Benjamin through his daughter Anne...
January – Robert Latham, editor and scholar (born 1912) 5 January – SomersetdeChair, author, politician and poet (born 1911) 7 January Harry Golombek...
Conservative Norfolk South James Christie Conservative Norfolk South West SomersetdeChair Conservative Normanton Tom Smith Labour Northampton Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller...
Conservative Paddington North William J. Field Labour Paddington South SomersetdeChair Conservative Paisley Douglas Johnston Labour Peckham Freda Corbet...