Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick, 1st Baronet (20 June 1869 – 21 May 1951) was a shipping magnate and an English Conservative

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 politician.

Chadwick was born at Oxton

Oxton, Merseyside

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, Cheshire

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, the son of Joseph Chadwick and Norah Irene Gibbs, being baptised with the name of Robert Chadwick. He was head of the shipping firm of Chadwick and Askew, of London

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 and Liverpool

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 and was eventually Director of Chadwick, Weir and Company, of London.

Chadwick served with the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

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 in the Second Boer War

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 from 1900 to 1901. During World War I

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, he became an Honorary Captain in the Hospital service of Royal Naval Reserve. He was decorated with the Royal Humane Society

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 certificate for saving life.

Chadwick was elected as M.P.

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 for Barrow in Furness in 1918 and in 1922 took the seat of Wallasey

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 which he held until 1931. He was Parliamentary Secretary

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 for the Board of Trade

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 between 1924 and 1928. In 1935, he was created 1st Baronet Chadwick, of Bidston, Cheshire

Burton-Chadwick Baronets

The Chadwick, later Burton-Chadwick Baronetcy, of Bidston in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 July 1935 for the businessman and Conservative politician Robert Chadwick. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade...

. He changed his name by Deed Poll to Robert Burton-Chadwick in 1936.

From 1940 to 1947 he was Counsellor to the British Embassy at Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

Chadwick married Catherine Barbara Williams, daughter of Thomas Williams, in 1903. Their eldest son Noel was killed in action serving with the Royal Air Force

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 in 1941. His second son Robert became 2nd Baronet on the death of his father in Westminster

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 registration district aged 81 in 1951.

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