Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan

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(27 October 1873 – 21 August 1933) was a British military officer and politician, who served as the

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Member of Parliament for

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from 1922 until his death. Vaughan-Morgan was educated at

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, and then studied abroad in France and Germany. He joined the family firm, the

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in Battersea, and rose to become director and vice-chairman. He married Muriel Collett in 1897; the two had three children. Following the outbreak of the

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, Vaughan-Morgan was commissioned in the

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in 1915, with a temporary commission as a lieutenant dating from 13 January 1915. He became a member of the

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at the War Office in 1917, and retired in 1919 as a lieutenant-colonel. Following the war, he became the honorary colonel of the 64th Field Brigade RA in the Territorial Army. In the

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he was elected to the

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for

as a

. He held the seat until his death in 1933 aged 59, when it was taken by Labour in a dramatic swing against the Government. Vaughan-Morgan was active in civic affairs in London, and was a deputy lieutenant for the county in 1928. He was also chair of the

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, a governor of St Thomas' and St Barts' hospitals, and a commissioner for income tax. Vaughan-Morgan's son John Vaughan-Morgan also entered politics, serving as a Conservative MP and later peer. One uncle, Sir Walter Morgan, was Lord Mayor of London, and another,

Octavius Vaughan Morgan Octavius Vaughan Morgan (1837 – 26 February 1896) was a Welsh-born Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892. The eighth son of Thomas Morgan of Pipton, near Glasbury, Breconshire (1796–1847), he was educat ...

, was a Liberal MP for Battersea.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughan-Morgan, Kenyon 1873 births 1933 deaths UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 Royal Army Service Corps officers People educated at Charterhouse School British Army personnel of World War I British expatriates in France British expatriates in Germany Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire