Born Ipswich. Trained as a barrister. In WW1 he served in the Royal Army Medical Corp and rose to be captain. He was awarded a Military Cross on 3 June 1918. 1929 became a Member of the Corporation of the City of London. Conservative MP for Blackburn 1931-45. Knighted in 1944. Chairman of the Chairman of the City of London Schools Committee in 1936.
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Captain George Sampson Elliston
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Born Hafod, Carmarthenshire. Posted to India where he began his investigations into cholera.
Born in London as John Peniston Milbanke, the son of the 9th baronet and so later became the 10th baronet. Awarded the VC for his bravery in the Second Boer War when just 27. Killed in action in Tu...
These battalions were recruited at Gray's Inn.
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