Courtenay Warner

Colonel Sir Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner, 1st Baronet CB (19 July 1857 – 15 December 1934) was a British politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Somerset from 1892 to 1895, and for Lichfield from 1896 to 1923.

Sir Courtenay Warner, about 1911
For other people named Thomas Warner, see Thomas Warner (disambiguation).
Sir Courtenay Warner

Warner was an officer in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, where he became major on 13 January 1902. He received the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel on 2 August 1902,[1] and later served as lieutenant-colonel in command and honorary colonel of the battalion. He received the CB on 25 June 1909,[2][3] and was made a baronet on 9 July 1910, of Brettenham Park, Suffolk.[4]

Initially a member of the Liberal Party, he stood at the 1918 general election as a Coalition Liberal, and at the 1922 general election as National Liberal.

He was also the first mayor of the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow after its incorporation in 1929. He gave his name to the Warner Flats on the Warner Estate, the popular type of housing in Walthamstow which he was responsible for developing. His ancestors built the Grade II listed Clock House villa in Walthamstow (now flats).[5]

His grave lies in the churchyard of St Mary's, Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk.

References
  1. "No. 27460". The London Gazette. 1 August 1902. p. 4971.
  2. "No. 28263". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 June 1909. p. 4854.
  3. "Birthday Honours". Times. 25 June 1909. p. 9. Retrieved 25 October 2019 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  4. "No. 28400". The London Gazette. 26 July 1910. pp. 5391–5392.
  5. "Clock House, Waltham Forest". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Evan Henry Llewellyn		 Member of Parliament for North Somerset
1892–1895		 Succeeded by
Evan Henry Llewellyn
Preceded by
Henry Charles Fulford		 Member of Parliament for Lichfield
1896–1923		 Succeeded by
Frank Hodges
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Sir William Brampton Gurdon		 Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk
1910–1934		 Succeeded by
The Earl of Stradbroke
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Brettenham Park, Suffolk)
1910–1934		 Succeeded by
Edward Warner

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