Oswald Cawley styled The Honourable from January 1918, was a British

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 soldier and Liberal Party

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 politician.

He was the fourth and youngest son of Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley

Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley

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 and his wife Elizabeth Smith, daughter of John Smith. His older brother was Harold Thomas Cawley

Harold Thomas Cawley

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. Cawley was educated at Rugby School

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 and New College, Oxford

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, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts

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. He served as lieutenant of the Shropshire Yeomanry

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 and became a captain of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. He fought in the First World War, where he was killed in action near Merville

Merville

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Shortly before his death in 1918, Cawley had been elected in a by-election in January

Prestwich by-election, January 1918

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 to succeed his father as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Prestwich

Prestwich (UK Parliament constituency)

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