Leolin Forestier-Walker

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| name = Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker

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| office = Member of Parliament for Monmouth

| term_start = 1918

| term_end = 1934

| predecessor = Lewis Haslam

| successor = John Arthur Herbert

| birth_name = Charles Leolin Walker

| birth_date = {{birthdate|1866|05|06|df=yes}}

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| death_date = {{dda|1934|05|13|1866|05|06|df=yes}}

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| party = Conservative

| spouse = Alice Blandy-Jenkins

| children = Daphne Forestier-Walker Jones

| parents = Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet
Hon. Fanny Henrietta Morgan

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Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, 1st Baronet, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KBE|DL}} (6 May 1866 – 13 May 1934{{London Gazette|issue=34093|page=6326|date=5 October 1934}}) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Early life

He was a younger son of Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet and the former Hon. Fanny Henrietta Morgan, a younger daughter of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar. Among his siblings were Sir George Forestier-Walker, 3rd Baronet.{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Knights, and Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets |date=1902 |publisher=Dean & Son, Limited |page=607 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Debrett_s_Peerage_Baronetage_Knightage_a/cLc7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA607 |access-date=12 December 2023 |language=en}}

His grandfather was Gen. Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet, Governor of Grenada who was a Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of Sussex.{{Cite book|last=Burke|first=John B.|year=1850|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary|publisher=Henry Colburn|location=London}}{{cite web |title=Walker, George Ferdinand Radzivill, Sir, 2nd Baronet (1825 -1896) {{!}} British Armorial Bindings |url=https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/WAL005 |website=armorial.library.utoronto.ca |publisher=Bibliographical Society of London |access-date=12 December 2023}}

Career

At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth in Wales and held the seat until his death in 1934, aged 68.{{London Gazette|issue=32897|page=364|date=11 January 1924}}{{London Gazette|issue=32996|page=8529|date=25 November 1924}}{{London Gazette|issue=33508|page=4112|date=21 June 1929}}{{London Gazette|issue=33769|page=7142|date=6 November 1931}} At the consequent by-election, the Monmouth seat was held by the Conservatives.{{London Gazette|issue=34061|page=3901|date=19 June 1934}} In addition to being an MP, he was also a Forestry Commissioner from 1920 to 1929.{{London Gazette|issue=33501|supp=y|page=3666|date=31 May 1929}} In 1921 he was also appointed a Mental Health Commissioner, under the terms of the Mental Deficiency Act 1913.{{London Gazette|issue=32311|page=3572|date=3 May 1921}}

Forestier-Walker was created a baronet (of Rhiwderin in the County of Monmouth){{London Gazette|issue=33516|page=4622|date=12 July 1929}} in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in the 1924 King's Birthday Honours. In the following year's list, he was honoured as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).{{London Gazette |issue=33053 |date=3 June 1925 |page=3775 |supp=y}} In 1934 he was created a Knight of Justice in the Venerable Order of Saint John.{{London Gazette|issue=34064|page=4057|date=26 June 1934}}

Personal life

Forestier-Walker was married Alice Blandy-Jenkins, a daughter of Col. John Blandy-Jenkins of Llanharan House. Together, they were the parents of:

Rosemary Forestier-Walker (1898–1958), who married John David Griffiths, son of William Griffiths, in 1925.
Daphne Forestier-Walker (b. 1902), who married Maj. Gavin David Young, son of George Young, in 1922.

Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker died on 13 May 1934. As he had no male issue, the baronetcy became extinct.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1466.

=Descendants=

Through his daughter Daphne, he was a grandfather of Gavin Young, the war correspondent and travel writer.{{cite web|title=Gavin Young: An Introduction|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/gavin-young-1928-2001-an-introduction/|website=Faber & Faber|date=3 April 2009|access-date=18 September 2017}}

Notes

References

{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |orig-year=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X}}
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