Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Sir Henry Studholme | |
Order1: | Vice-Chamberlain of the Household |
Term Start1: | 1951 |
Term End1: | 1956 |
Monarch1: | George VI Elizabeth II |
Predecessor1: | Ernest Popplewell |
Successor1: | Sir Richard Thompson Bart. |
Office2: | Member of Parliament for Tavistock |
Term Start2: | 2 April 1942 |
Term End2: | 10 March 1966 |
Predecessor2: | Colin Patrick |
Successor2: | Michael Heseltine |
Birth Name: | Henry Gray Studholme |
Birth Place: | Exeter, Devon, England |
Party: | Conservative |
Alma Mater: | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Birth Date: | 13 June 1899 |
Death Place: | Plymouth, Devon, England |
Children: | 3, including Paul |
Sir Henry Gray Studholme, 1st Baronet CVO DL (13 June 1899 – 9 October 1987) was a British Conservative Party politician who was the MP for Tavistock from 1942 to 1966.
Studholme was the son of landowner William Paul Studholme and a grandson of New Zealand pioneer and politician John Studholme. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford and served as an officer in the Scots Guards.[1]
Studholme was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tavistock from a 1942 by-election until his retirement in 1966, when he was succeeded by Michael Heseltine. He served under Winston Churchill and then Anthony Eden as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (i.e. a whip) from 1951 to 1956. In 1956, he was created a Baronet of Perridge in the County of Devon. He was Joint Honorary Treasury of the Conservative Party from 1956 to 1962.
Michael Crick wrote that Studholme was a diligent constituency MP but an "appalling speaker", and he thus benefitted from serving as a whip, as they seldom speak during debates.[1]
Studholme married Judith Joan Mary Whitbread, daughter of Henry William Whitbread and granddaughter of Samuel Whitbread, in 1929. They had two sons and a daughter.[2]
Studholme later served as a deputy lieutenant of Devon in 1969. He died in Plymouth on 9 October 1987, aged 88.[2] [3] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Paul.