Sir Beville Stanier, 1st Baronet (12 June 1867 – 15 December 1921) was a British politician and landowner.

Biography

Stanier was born in

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in 1867, the son of Francis Stanier and Caroline Stanier, sister of General William Clive Justice (1835–1908). He was educated privately then studied at the

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, and in 1894 married Constance Gibbons, daughter of the Reverend Benjamin Gibbons. They had four children, including Alexander Stanier, a prominent Army officer. Stanier farmed a 4,000 hectare estate at Peplow Hall, which had been purchased by his father in the 1870s. He entered public life in 1902, as a member of

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, holding this post until 1912. Following the death of the incumbent

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, Stanier was elected as a Unionist Member of Parliament for

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in a 1908 by-election. He held the seat until the 1918 general election, when at same time the Newport constituency was abolished and he replaced the retiring

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. He remained the MP for Ludlow until his death, aged 54, in 1921. He was created a baronet in the

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. During the

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, Stanier held the rank of captain in the Territorial Reserve, and served as the honorary secretary of the Shropshire Territorial Association, the body that administered military units raised in the county. At the start of the war in 1914, he took on the annual post of treasurer of the

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in Shrewsbury when their preferred candidate had been mobilized to serve abroad. Stanier was the deputy chairman of the

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and the

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, a director of the Farmers' Land Purchase Company and Home Grown Sugar. He was also chair of the British Sugar Beet Growers' Society and a governor of Harper Adams Agricultural College, and until a few years before his death was proprietor of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stanier, Beville 1867 births 1921 deaths Alumni of the Royal Agricultural University UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies British Army personnel of World War I Military personnel from Cumbria Territorial Force officers