Chichester de Windt Crookshank (18 October 1868 – 23 October 1958) , was a

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officer and Unionist Member of Parliament, for Berwick and Haddington from 1924 until 1929; and for

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from 1931 until he retired in 1935.

Military career

Crookshank was commissioned a second lieutenant in the

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on 23 July 1887, promoted to

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on 23 July 1890, and to

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on 1 April 1898. He served in the

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, and was slightly wounded in the

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in February 1900). He was then attached to the 7th Infantry division of the South Africa Field Force.

Political career

Crookshank was the Unionist Member of Parliament for Berwick and Haddington from

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. He was unseated in

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George Sinkinson George Sinkinson (25 November 1874 – 14 January 1939) was a Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) for Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency), Ber ...

of the Labour Party; and was returned to the

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as Conservative MP for

at the 1931 general election. In 1932 he was assigned as the King's Body Guard. Crookshank retired at the end of that Parliament in 1935.

Arms

Authorship

Crookshank was the author of the 1921 book ''Prints of British Military Operations'', dealing with 52 military operations.

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* 1868 births 1958 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1931–1935 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Politics of East Lothian Politics of the Scottish Borders Royal Engineers officers Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Liverpool constituencies British people in colonial India {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub