Member of Parliament for Whitby
What was the position of Gervase Beckett from Dec 1910 to Nov 1918?
Gervase Beckett The Honourable Sir William Gervase Beckett , 1st Baronet ( 14 January 1866 – 24 August 1937 ) , born William Gervase Beckett-Denison , was a British banker and Conservative politician . Business career . Beckett was the son of William Beckett-Denison MP . He was educated at Eton College and joined the family banking business , Beckett & Co , in Leeds . After the firm was taken over by the Westminster Bank he joined the banks board . He was also chairman of the Yorkshire Post and proprietor and editor of the Saturday Review . His elder brother , Ernest , succeeded his uncle as 2nd Baron Grimthorpe in 1905 and Beckett was granted the precedence of a barons son and the right to use the style The Honourable . Parliamentary career . He was elected at the 1906 general election as Member of Parliament for Whitby . When that constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election , he was returned for the new Scarborough and Whitby constituency . He did not contest the 1922 general election , but returned to the House of Commons at the 1923 general election as Member of Parliament for Leeds North , and held that seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1929 election . Military career . Beckett was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 3rd ( Militia ) Battalion , Green Howards in 1884 , but resigned his commission in 1886 . He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars in 1888 . He was promoted Lieutenant in 1895 and Captain in 1898 , and resigned his commission in 1901 During the First World War he returned to service as Assistant Military Secretary of Northern Command from 1914 to 1916 . He was Assistant Director of the Department of War Trade from 1918 to 1919 . Family . He married the Honourable Mabel Theresa Duncombe ( 1877–1913 ) the daughter of William Duncombe , Viscount Helmsley . They had four daughters : - Marion Frances Theresa Beckett ( 8 Nov 1896 – 2 Feb 1972 ) married Vice-Admiral Henry Jack Egerton , son of Charles Augustus Egerton and Lady Mabel Annie Brassey , on 16 October 1919 - Cynthia Maud Beckett ( 15 Dec 1900 – 25 Dec 1969 ) married Captain John Arthur Davison , son of Major Arthur Pearson Davison , on 10 November 1919 . Divorced 1928 . She married German author and BT-correspondent Kurt Hermann Paul Otto Valerio Baron von Stutterheim ( 1888-1978 ) , son of Richard Karl Ludwig Baron von Stutterheim , on 10 July 1929 . Divorced in 1952 . - Beatrice Helen Beckett ( 26 Jul 1905 – 29 Jun 1957 ) – married Anthony Eden . - Ann Prunella Beckett ( 16 Sep 1907 – 17 Mar 2001 ) married Lt.-Col . Harry Rumbold Bathurst Norman , son of Reverend Harry Bathurst Norman , on 15 April 1936 . Secondly he married Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva Greville , daughter of Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville , 5th Earl of Warwick and Frances Evelyn Maynard , on 1 November 1917 . Lady Greville was the widow of Charles Duncombe , 2nd Earl of Feversham , his first wifes brother . This marriage produced one son : - Sir Martyn Gervase Beckett , 2nd Bt ( 6 Nov 1918 – 5 Aug 2001 ) The publisher Sir Rupert Hart-Davis ( 1907-1999 ) was legally the son of stockbroker Richard Hart-Davis and his wife Sybil , daughter of the surgeon Sir Alfred Cooper ; by the time of his conception , the Hart-Davises were estranged , and Sybil had numerous lovers at that period . Hart-Davis considered Beckett to be the most likely candidate for his natural father . Beckett was created a baronet in the 1921 Birthday Honours , as Sir Gervase Beckett , 1st Baronet Beckett , of Kirkdale Manor in the County of Yorkshire . Sources . - Obituary , The Times , 25 August 1937