Sir Archibald Southby, 1st Baronet

Southby in 1939

Commander[1] Sir Archibald Richard James Southby, 1st Baronet (8 July 1886 – 30 October 1969) was an English Royal Navy officer and Conservative Party politician.

Career

Southby joined the Royal Navy, and on 15 September 1902 was posted as a naval cadet to the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Magnificent,[2] flagship to the second-in-command of the Channel Fleet. In the period following the First World War, he took part in the demilitarization of Heligoland.[3]

After his return home to England, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Epsom constituency in Surrey at a by-election in 1928. He held the seat for nearly 20 years until his resignation in 1947 by the procedural device of accepting the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. He was made a Baronet in 1937, of Burford in the county of Oxfordshire.

Family

Southby was twice married: firstly to Phyllis Mary Garton, on 20 July 1909, from whom he was divorced in 1962. They had two sons, Sir Archibald Richard Charles Southby, 2nd Bt, and Lt.-Cdr. Patrick Southby (born 1913).[4] He married secondly to Noreen Vera Simm, on 28 March 1962.

Notes

  1. ↑
    • Lundy, Darryl. "thePeerage.com: Southby, Sir Archibald, 1st Baronet". Retrieved 2008-05-10.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36855). London. 25 August 1902. p. 8.
  3. ↑ The Times, 16 January, A Visit To Heligoland, Archibald RJ Southby
  4. ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "thePeerage.com: Lt.-Cdr. Patrick Henry James Southby". Retrieved 2007-06-18.

References

  • Lundy, Darryl. "thePeerage.com: Southby, Sir Archibald, 1st Baronet". Retrieved 2007-06-18.
  • Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
George Blades		 Member of Parliament for Epsom
1928–1947		 Succeeded by
Malcolm McCorquodale
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Burford)
1937–1969		 Succeeded by
Sir Archibald Southby


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