Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, 1st Baronet, DSO

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, OBE

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, TD

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, DL

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 (27 April 1876 – 27 February 1964) was a British Conservative

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 politician.

Born in Barton upon Irwell

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, Lancashire

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, Headlam was educated at King's School, Canterbury and at Magdalen College, Oxford

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. He was a Clerk in the House of Lords

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 1897-1924 and became a barrister, Inner Temple

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 in 1906. He served with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry

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 from 1910-1926, was mentioned in despatches in World War I

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 and awarded the DSO and OBE, retiring as Lieutenant-Colonel.

Headlam was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Barnard Castle

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 at the 1924 general election

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. After the loss of his seat in 1929

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, he stood in the Gateshead by-election in June 1931

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, coming a close second in what had been a safe seat

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 for Labour. He regained the Barnard Castle seat at the general election in October 1931

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, but was defeated again at the 1935 general election

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. He was returned to the House of Commons for a third time at a by-election in June 1940

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 as MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North

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, after standing as an "Independent Conservative" and beating the official Conservative Party candidate. He held the seat until he retired from Parliament

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 at the 1951 general election

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.

He served in government as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1926-1929; as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions from 1931-1932; and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport

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 from 1932-1934.

Headlam was a Durham County Councilor from 1931-1939, and Justice of the Peace

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 for the County of Durham. He was Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations

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 in 1941. He was created a Baronet

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 in 1935 and appointed a Privy Counsellor

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 in 1945. He died in Bath, Somerset

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aged 87.