Frederick Halsey
Preceded by | new constituency |
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Succeeded by | Nathaniel Micklem |
Personal details | |
Born | 9 December 1839 |
Died | 12 February 1927 | (aged 87)
Political party | Conservative |
Sir Thomas Frederick Halsey, 1st Baronet,
Background and education
Halsey came from one of the most prominent families of Hertfordshire, whose seat was at Gaddesden Place, near Hemel Hempstead. He was the son of Thomas Plumer Halsey and his wife Frederica Johnston, daughter of General F. Johnston. His father was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hertfordshire from 1847 until he was drowned with his wife and his younger son in the shipwreck of the steamer Ercolano in the Gulf of Genoa on 24 April 1854. Frederick Halsey was at Eton at the time. He progressed from there to Christ Church, Oxford. He rowed in the losing Oxford eight in the Boat Race in 1860.[1]
After graduating in 1861, Halsey took up the life of a county notable in Hertfordshire, obtaining a commission in the
Political career
At the
After his parliamentary defeat he once more devoted himself to county affairs, serving as chairman of the St Albans Quarter Sessions from 1908 to 1918. No decision of his court was ever
Announced in the
Private life
He was an active
In December 1908, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Hertfordshire.[13]
Halsey lived at Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead. He died at the age of 87.
Family
Halsey married in 1865 Mary Julia Wells, and had ten children, including:
- Sir Walter Johnston Halsey, 2nd Baronet (1868–1950)
- Captain Arthur Halsey (1869–1957)
- Rev. Frederick Halsey (1870–1952)
- Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey (1872–1949), fourth son.
- Edith Halsey (d.1952), youngest daughter, who married in 1903 Lieut.-Colonel Bernard Granville (1873–1933), 3rd The King's Own Hussars.[14] They left children.
See also
Footnotes
- ^ George Gilbert Treherne Treherne; John Haviland Dashwood Goldie (1884). Record of the university boat race, 1829-1883. London: Bickers & Son, Leicester Square. p. 176. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ^ London Gazette issue 27272[permanent dead link]
- ^ "No. 31931". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1920. p. 6314.
- ^ "No. 32035". The London Gazette. 31 August 1920. p. 8860.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Peerage page[usurped]
- ^ Obituary, The Times, 14 February 1927
- ^ "Officers of the Provincial Grand Lodge". PGL MMM of Hertfordshire. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "Sir Thomas Frederick Halsey". Royston Lodge. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "Freemasonry and the First World War". Provincial Grand Lodge of Leicestershire & Rutland. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "No. 28211". The London Gazette. 1 January 1909. p. 33.
- ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 36982. London. 20 January 1903. p. 1.