Colonel Sir Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner, 1st Baronet (19 July 1857 – 15 December 1934) was a British politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from

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1895 Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...

, and for

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from 1896 to

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. Warner was an officer in the 3rd (

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) Battalion,

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, where he became

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on 13 January 1902. He received the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel on 2 August 1902, and later served as lieutenant-colonel in command and honorary colonel of the battalion. He received the CB on 25 June 1909, and was made a

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on 9 July 1910, of Brettenham Park,

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. Initially a member of the

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, he stood at the 1918 general election as a

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, and at the 1922 general election as

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. He was also the first mayor of the

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after its incorporation in 1929. Sir Courtenay Warner lived in the former Manor House of Highams, which was sold to

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1922 for £7000. It is now Woodford County High School for Girls. Plans were drawn up to construct housing for the middle classes on 90 acres of the estate; this development is known as the Highams Estate and was completed in 1934. He gave his name to the Warner Flats on the

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, the popular type of housing in

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which he was responsible for developing. His ancestors built the

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Clock House villa in Walthamstow (now flats). His son Edward renewed the seating (pews) at the St Peter in the Forest parish church building on the edge of Epping Forest in Walthamstow and arranged for a wall plaque to be erected in the building to his father. The pews were removed during the recent restoration but the plaque has been kept. His grave lies in the churchyard of St Mary's, Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk.

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* Highams Residents' Association website: https://www.highamsra.org/history * 1857 births 1934 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Companions of the Order of the Bath Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Lord-lieutenants of Suffolk Mayors of places in Greater London National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) politicians Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 {{UK-baronet-stub