Sidney Richard Streatfeild (27 June 1894 – 2 December 1966) was a

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Unionist Party politician descended from the historic

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. Sidney Streatfeild was the son of Hugh Streatfeild (1867–1950) and Evelyn Cherry (d 1964). He was educated at

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. He served in the

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1914 - 1919 in the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He married in 1916, Muriel Mary, daughter of S. C. Bristowe and Ethel Bristowe of Craig,

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in Kirkcudbrightshire. At the 1924 general election he stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative Party candidate in the City of Durham constituency, but after the death in 1925 of Unionist MP Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, he won the

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seat at the resulting by-election in 1925. However, at the 1929 general election, he lost the seat to Cecil Dudgeon, Henniker-Hughan's Liberal predecessor who had been the runner-up in the by-election. Sidney Streatfeild did not stand for

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again.

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* Sidney 1894 births 1966 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1924–1929 People educated at Rugby School {{Conservative-UK-MP-1890s-stub