Monday, 26 February 2018
1836 Harold St Maur
Constituency : Exeter 1910-11
Harold took Exeter from the Tories at the second attempt by just 4 votes.
Harold was the illegitimate son of Earl St Maur and a grandson of the Duke of Somerset. He inherited a property from his grandfather in 1885 .His mother was a maid. He was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst and joined the army. He served in the Boer War. He was a local councillor and master of the South Devon Foxhounds.
The Tories petitioned against Harold's election. It took two judges seven days to declare the Tory the winner by a single vote.
Harold served in World War One at Gallipoli , in the Middle East and as a liaison officer in France.He reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
In 1925 Harold tried to claim the Dukedom of Somerset offering rewards to anyone who could produce proof that his parents were married.
Harold wrote a highly-regarded genealogical work Annals of the Seymours .
He died in Kenya in 1927 aged 57.
That concludes our look at the victors of December 1910. We now look at the by-election victors of the 1910-18 Parliament.
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