Henry Hunloke Explained

Honorific Prefix:Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Hunloke
Honorific Suffix:TD
Office:Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire
Term Start:1938
Term End:1944
Predecessor:Marquess of Hartington
Successor:Charles Frederick White, Jr.
Birth Name:Henry Philip Hunloke
Birth Date:27 December 1906
Birth Place:Marylebone, London
Death Place:Marlborough, Wiltshire
Party:Conservative
Parents:Philip Hunloke
Sylvia Heseltine
Spouse:
  • Ruth Holdsworth
Children:5
Relations:John Postle Heseltine (grandfather)
Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley (great-grandmother)

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Hunloke TD (27 December 1906  - 13 January 1978) was a British Conservative politician.

Early life

Hunloke was born in Marylebone, London, the only son of Philip Hunloke and the former Sylvia Heseltine. He had two siblings, Alberta Diana Hunloke (wife of Sir George Paynter) and Joan Cecil Hunloke (wife of banker Philip Fleming, uncle of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond).[1]

His maternal grandfather was the painter and art collector John Postle Heseltine of Walhampton. His paternal grandparents were Capt. Philip Perceval and the former Ernestine Wellington Sidney (a daughter of Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley, herself the eldest illegitimate daughter of William IV of the United Kingdom through his relationship with Dorothea Jordan).[2]

Career

Hunloke was a keen amateur cricketer and played minor counties cricket for Wiltshire on eleven occasions from 1926 to 1928.[3]

Hunloke was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire in 1938,[4] resigning in 1944. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration.[5]

Personal life

On 28 November 1929, he married Lady Anne Cavendish at St Margaret's, Westminster.[6] Lady Anne was the youngest daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire. Before their divorce in 1945 on the grounds of his adultery, they lived at Montagu Square, London, and had three children:[7]

After their divorce, his wife remarried to Christopher Holland-Martin MP, and, after his death, the 10th Earl of Sandwich (who was the father of their son's wife).[10] He married again to Virginia Archer Clive, daughter of Percy Clive (a grandson of William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh) and the former Alice Muriel Dallas, on 19 May 1945.[9] They lived at St. Catherine's Lodge in Wokingham and Pendower House in Cornwall. They had two children before their divorce in 1972:[9]

He later made a third marriage, to Ruth Holdsworth, before he died in Marlborough, Wiltshire on 13 January 1978, aged 71.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Hammond, Peter W., editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 669
  2. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . 1914 . Burke's Peerage Limited . 592 . 26 August 2021 . en.
  3. Web site: Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Henry Hunloke . CricketArchive . 2020-05-24 . subscription.
  4. News: TIMES . Wireless to THE NEW YORK . GOVERNMENT WINS BRITISH BY-ELECTION; Supporters of Chamberlain's Foreign Policy Cheered . 26 August 2021 . . 4 June 1938.
  5. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 132.
  6. News: TIMES . Wireless to THE NEW YORK . DUKE'S DAUGHTER IN BRILLIANT BRIDAL; Lady Anne Cavendish Weds Henry Hunloke, Former Page to King George. . 26 August 2021 . . 29 November 1929.
  7. News: Lady Anne Hunloke Gets Decree . 26 August 2021 . . 6 March 1945 . 5.
  8. News: Times . The New York . VISCOUNT ASTOR. WEDS IN LONDON; Lady Astor Attends Marriage of Eldest Son, Ex-M. P., and Phillips Hunloke . 26 August 2021 . . 27 April 1955.
  9. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. volume 1, page 1131.
  10. News: Viscount Will Wed Daughter of Duke . 26 August 2021 . . 4 May 1962.