John Whiteley (politician)
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Brigadier John Percival Whiteley OBE (7 January 1898 – 4 July 1943)[1] was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.
Whiteley was commissioned into the Royal Artillery during the First World War, ending the war as a Lieutenant. In 1926 he transferred to the Life Guards, retiring in 1928 and joining the 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) as a Captain. He was promoted Major in 1932.
He stood unsuccessfully at the 1929 general election in Birmingham Aston,[2] and entered the House of Commons 8 years later when he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham at a by-election in 1937, after the sitting MP George Bowyer was elevated to the peerage as Baron Denham.[3]
When World War II broke out, Whiteley resumed military service.[4] He was active at Dunkirk,[4] and died in 1943, aged 45, when he was killed in a plane crash in Gibraltar, along with the Conservative MP Victor Cazalet and General Władysław Sikorski, the leader of the Polish government-in-exile.[4]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)[self-published source][better source needed]
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External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Whiteley
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Buckingham 1937–1943 |
Succeeded by Lionel Berry |
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