Thomas E. Sotheron-Estcourt

Captain Thomas Edmund Sotheron-Estcourt JP (27 April 1881 – 25 January 1958) was a British Army officer and a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1935.

He married Anne Evelyn Anson on 10 October 1912.[1]

Estcourt was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 7th (Militia) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 11 November 1902.[2] He served with the Royal Scots Greys in the First World War before he was retired from the Army in September 1919 following injuries he received on active service.[3]

At the 1931 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract.[4] He held the seat until the 1935 general election when it was taken by the Labour Party candidate Adam Hills.[4]

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