Sir_Harry_Mackeson,_1st_Baronet

Harry Mackeson

Harry Mackeson

British soldier and politician

Sir Harry Ripley Mackeson, 1st Baronet (25 May 1905 – 25 January 1964) was a British soldier and Conservative politician.[1]

Mackeson was the son of Henry Mackeson and Ella Cecil Ripley. He served in the Royal Scots Greys regiment of the British Army and achieved the rank of Brigadier. In 1945 he was elected to the House of Commons for Hythe, a seat he held until 1950 when the constituency was abolished, and then represented Folkestone and Hythe until 1959.[2] Mackeson served under Winston Churchill as a Lord of the Treasury from 1951 to 1952 and as Secretary for Overseas Trade from 1952 to 1953. In 1954 he was created a Baronet, of Hythe in the County of Kent.

Mackeson married Alethea Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot, daughter of Reginald George Chetwynd-Talbot, in 1940. He died in January 1964, aged 58, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Rupert.[3]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Sir Harry Mackeson Dies". The New York Times. 27 January 1964. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  2. [2]
    Alexandrou, Haralambos; Kontos, Michalis; Panayiotides, Nikos (30 June 2014). Great Power Politics in Cyprus: Foreign Interventions and Domestic Perceptions. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-4438-6325-4.
  3. [3]
    The Illustrated London News. Vol. 244. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1964. p. 171.

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
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