Commander Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs (15 March 1871 – 22 August 1955) was a British naval officer and politician

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He was born at Gibraltar

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, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir William Bellairs, KCMG.
In 1885 he entered the Royal Navy

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, receiving his education at HMS Britannia

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 and the Royal Naval College

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In 1891 he received a special promotion to Lieutenant

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 having obtained first-class certificates in all his subjects.
He retired from the service in 1902, and from 1902 to 1905 was Lecturer on the War Course for Senior Naval Officers.

In the 1906 general election

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 he was elected to Parliament for King's Lynn

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 as a Liberal

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, but in October 1906 crossed the floor to sit as a Liberal Unionist.
In the January 1910 general election he unsuccessfully stood for election at West Salford and in December 1910 was also defeated at Walthamstow

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In 1911 Bellairs was married to Charlotte, daughter of Colonel H. L. Pierson of Long Island, USA.
From 1913 he was a member of the London County Council

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 as Municipal Reform Party

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 member for Lewisham, resigning on 17 April 1915.

He returned to Parliament as Conservative

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 member for Maidstone

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 at a by-election in February 1915, and was re-elected for the Maidstone division of Kent in 1918.
He retired from Parliament at the 1931 general election

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, having declined a baronetcy in 1927.

Charlotte Bellairs died in 1939. Carlyon Bellairs lived at 10 Eaton Place, London and Gore Court, Maidstone, Kent, and was a member of the Carlton Club

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 and the Coefficients dining club

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 of social reformers set up in 1902 by the Fabian

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 campaigners Sidney and Beatrice Webb

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. He died in Barbados

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