Leolin Forestier-Walker

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Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, 1st Baronet, Template:Post-nominals (6 May 1866 – 13 May 1934[1]) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Early life

He was a younger son of Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet and the former Hon. Fanny Henrietta Morgan, a younger daughter of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar.[2] Among his siblings were Sir George Forestier-Walker, 3rd Baronet.[3]

His grandfather was Gen. Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet, Governor of Grenada who was a Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of Sussex.[4][5]

Career

At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth in Wales and held the seat until his death in 1934, aged 68.[6][7][8][9] At the consequent by-election, the Monmouth seat was held by the Conservatives.[10] In addition to being an MP, he was also a Forestry Commissioner from 1920 to 1929.[11] In 1921 he was also appointed a Mental Health Commissioner, under the terms of the Mental Deficiency Act 1913.[12]

Forestier-Walker was created a baronet (of Rhiwderin in the County of Monmouth)[13] in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in the 1924 King's Birthday Honours.[11] In the following year's list, he was honoured as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).[14] In 1934 he was created a Knight of Justice in the Venerable Order of Saint John.[15]

Personal life

Forestier-Walker was married Alice Blandy-Jenkins, a daughter of Col. John Blandy-Jenkins of Llanharan House. Together, they were the parents of:[2]

  • Rosemary Forestier-Walker (1898–1958), who married John David Griffiths, son of William Griffiths, in 1925.[2]
  • Daphne Forestier-Walker (b. 1902), who married Maj. Gavin David Young, son of George Young, in 1922.[2]

Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker died on 13 May 1934. As he had no male issue, the baronetcy became extinct.[2]

Descendants

Through his daughter Daphne, he was a grandfather of Gavin Young, the war correspondent and travel writer.[16]

Notes

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  2. ↑ a b c d e 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 1466.
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References

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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check Member of Parliament for Monmouth
1918 – 1934 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Rhiwderin in the County of Monmouth)
1929 – 1956 Template:S-ttl/check 		Extinct
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