Henry Studholme

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = Sir Henry Studholme

| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Bt|CVO|DL}}

| image =

| caption =

| order1 = Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

| term_start1 = 1951

| term_end1 = 1956

| monarch1 = George VI
Elizabeth II

| primeminister1 = Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden

| predecessor1 = Ernest Popplewell

| successor1 = Sir Richard Thompson Bart.

|office2 = Member of Parliament
for Tavistock

|term_start2 = 2 April 1942

|term_end2 = 10 March 1966

|predecessor2 = Colin Patrick

|successor2 = Michael Heseltine

| birth_name = Henry Gray Studholme

| birth_place = Exeter, Devon, England

| party = Conservative

| alma_mater = Magdalen College, Oxford

| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|6|13|df=y}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|10|9|1899|6|13|df=y}}

| death_place = Plymouth, Devon, England

| spouse = {{marriage|Judith Joan Mary Whitbread|1926}}

| children = 3, including Paul

}}

Sir Henry Gray Studholme, 1st Baronet CVO DL (13 June 1899 – 9 October 1987) was a British Conservative Party politician who was the MP for Tavistock from 1942 to 1966.

Early life

Studholme was the son of landowner William Paul Studholme and a grandson of New Zealand pioneer and politician John Studholme. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford and served as an officer in the Scots Guards.Crick 1997, p118

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Parliament

Studholme was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tavistock from a 1942 by-election until his retirement in 1966, when he was succeeded by Michael Heseltine. He served under Winston Churchill and then Anthony Eden as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (i.e. a whip) from 1951 to 1956. In 1956, he was created a Baronet of Perridge in the County of Devon. He was Joint Honorary Treasury of the Conservative Party from 1956 to 1962.

Michael Crick wrote that Studholme was a diligent constituency MP but an "appalling speaker", and he thus benefitted from serving as a whip, as they seldom speak during debates.

Family

Studholme married Judith Joan Mary Whitbread, daughter of Henry William Whitbread and granddaughter of Samuel Whitbread, in 1929. They had two sons and a daughter.{{cite news|title = Sir Henry Studholme Bt|newspaper = The Times|date = 12 October 1987|page = 18}}

Studholme later served as a deputy lieutenant of Devon in 1969. He died in Plymouth on 9 October 1987, aged 88.{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=g46fTdkkszGvaCxLaGqCFQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=25 July 2023|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Paul.

References

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Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
Michael Crick, Michael Heseltine: A Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1997, {{ISBN|0-241-13691-1}}.