Alexander Thynne

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Alexander Thynne. Photograph in the Illustrated London News dated September 28, 1918

Lord Alexander George Thynne DSO (born February 17, 1873 , † 14 (according to other information 16 September 1918 ) was a British politician and soldier. Although he was a Member of Parliament , he fought as a soldier in France during the First World War .

Origin and education

Alexander Thynne came from the Thynne family . He was the third and youngest son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath and his wife Frances Vesey . He attended Eton College and then studied at Balliol College , Oxford .

Military service and political activity

In 1897, Thynne joined the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry as an officer and volunteered in the Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer War in South Africa between 1900 and 1902 . From 1902 to 1905 he was secretary to the lieutenant governor of the Orange River Colony , while from 1903 to 1904 he took part in a campaign in Somaliland as a Reuters correspondent . As early as 1896, Thynne ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative Party in a by-election in Frome for the House of Commons , as well as in the 1906 general election for Bath . In the general election in January and December 1910 , however, he received the most votes in Bath, so that he was a member of the House of Commons . He stayed that way until his death. He belonged to the London County Council from 1899 to 1900 and from 1907 .

Participation in the First World War

As a major in the Wiltshire Regiment , Thynne took part in the First World War. He was awarded Mentioned in dispatches , the French Croix de guerre and in 1917 the Distinguished Service Order . After he had already been wounded during the Summer Battle and in March 1918, he fell a few weeks before the end of the war as battalion commander with the rank of lieutenant colonel on the western front . He was buried in a military cemetery near Béthune .

He had remained unmarried.

literature

  • THYNNE, Lord Alexander George . In Who Was Who. London: A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2016. Who Was Who online edition. Oxford: OUP, 2014. Online ed., Apr 2014. 6 Sept. 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Everard Wyrall: The Nineteenth Division 1914-1918. Andrews UK, Luton 2012. ISBN 978-1-78150-631-8 , p. 236
  2. ↑ Commonwealth War Grave Commission: THYNNE, Lord ALEXANDER GEORGE. Retrieved October 6, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Thynne, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thynne, Lord Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and soldier
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1873
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1918 or September 16, 1918