Sir John Ralph Starkey, 1st Baronet (1 May 1859 – 13 November 1940)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
Life edit
He was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Newark at the 1906 general election,[2] and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1922 general election.[3]
In 1910, his gardener planted the first commercial orchard of Bramley apples at Starkey's Norwood Park estate. It was still in cultivation by the family in 2017.[4]
Starkey was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1906,[5] and was made a baronet in July 1935, of Norwood Park in the parish of Southwell and County of Nottingham.[6]
He died in 1940.
References edit
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 367. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 446. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ Emma Sheppard (28 April 2017). "'After Brexit people will fall in love with English apples again'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ "No. 27928". The London Gazette. 3 July 1906. p. 4559.
- ^ "No. 34179". The London Gazette. 12 July 1935. p. 4522.