Chichester de Windt Crookshank explained

Honorific-Prefix:Lieutenant Colonel
Chichester de Windt Crookshank
Office1:Member of Parliament for Berwick and Haddington
Term Start1:1924
Term End1:1929
Predecessor2:Vivian Henderson
Successor2:Eric Errington
Office2:Member of Parliament for Bootle
Term Start2:1931
Term End2:1935
Predecessor1:Robert Spence
Successor1:George Sinkinson
Birth Date:1868 10, df=yes
Birth Place:British India
Children:Esther Marion Patricia Crookshank (daughter) William Usher Crookshank (son)
Arthur Patrick Usher Crookshank (son)
George Howard Usher Crookshank (son)
Mother:Mary Elizabeth D' Aguilar
Father:Arthur Chichester William Crookshank
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Chichester de Windt Crookshank (18 October 1868 – 23 October 1958), was a British Army officer and Unionist Member of Parliament, for Berwick and Haddington from 1924 until 1929; and for Bootle from 1931 until he retired in 1935.

Military career

Crookshank was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 23 July 1887, promoted to lieutenant on 23 July 1890, and to captain on 1 April 1898.[1] He served in the Second Boer War, and was slightly wounded in the Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900).[2] He was then attached to the 7th Infantry division of the South Africa Field Force.

Political career

Crookshank was the Unionist Member of Parliament for Berwick and Haddington from 1924. He was unseated in 1929 by George Sinkinson of the Labour Party; and was returned to the House of Commons as Conservative MP for Bootle at the 1931 general election. In 1932 he was assigned as the King's Body Guard. Crookshank retired at the end of that Parliament in 1935.

Arms

Notes:Granted 25 March 1925 by Sir Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms.[3]
Escutcheon:Or three boars' heads erased Sable armed and langued Azure a bordure of the second.
Crest:On a wreath of the colours a dexter cubit arm in armour holding in the hand a dagger in bend sinister Proper hilt and pommel Or.
Mantling:Gyles doubled Argent.
Motto:Conferre Gladium

Authorship

Crookshank was the author of the 1921 book Prints of British Military Operations, dealing with 52 military operations.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Hart's Army list, 1901
  2. Casualties in the War. 1 March 1900 . 6 . 36078.
  3. Web site: Grants and Confirmations of Arms Volume M . National Library of Ireland . 145 . 24 August 2022.
  4. Book: Crookshank, C. de W.. Prints of British Military Operations. London. Adlard & Son & West Newman. 1921.
  5. Review of Prints of British Military Operations. 100 . Notes and Queries . February 4, 1922 . Oxford University Press .