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Name
  
Henry Studholme

Role
  
British Politician


Died
  
October 9, 1987

Party
  
Conservative Party

Henry Studholme

Sir Henry Gray Studholme, 1st Baronet (13 June 1899 – 9 October 1987) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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 from 1951 to 1956 and was Joint Honorary Treasury of the Conservative Party from 1956 to 1962. In 1956 he was created a Baronet, of Perridge in the County of Devon. He later served as Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1969.

Studholme married Judith Joan Mary Whitbread, daughter of Henry William Whitbread, in 1929. He died in October 1987, aged 88, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Paul.

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