Captain Sir Harold Malcolm Bullock, 1st Baronet MBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (10 July 1890 - 20 June 1966) was a British soldier and Conservative Party

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 politician.

A Captain in the Scots Guards

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, Bullock normally went by his middle name of Malcolm rather than his first name. In 1923 he was elected as the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Waterloo

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 in Lancashire

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, a position he retained until the constituency was abolished in 1950. He was re-elected in the new Crosby constituency

Crosby (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at both the 1950

United Kingdom general election, 1950

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 and 1951 general elections

United Kingdom general election, 1951

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, before resigning as an MP in October 1953. In February 1954 he was created a Baronet, of Crosby in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Bullock married Lady Victoria Alice Louise Primrose, daughter of Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby

Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby

Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, KGStJ, JP , known as Lord Stanley from 1893 to 1908, was a British soldier, Conservative politician, diplomat and racehorse owner. He was twice Secretary of State for War and also served as British Ambassador to...

 and widow of Neil Primrose, in 1919. They had one daughter. Lady Victoria died in a hunting accident in November 1927, aged 35. Bullock died in June 1966, aged 75, when the baronetcy became extinct.

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