Captain Arthur Granville Soames OBE (12 October 1886 – 6 July 1962) was a British Army officer in the Coldstream Guards and landowner.
On Christmas night 1918, his father, Harold Soames, killed himself by walking into the sea at Lilliput, Poole.
His sister Auriol Edith Davidson also died by suicide, throwing herself under a train at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on 5 April 1919; she was survived by her three small daughters, aged five, three, and three months.
[citation needed] Soames was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a Second lieutenant into the Coldstream Guards on 16 August 1905.
[8] On 20 December 1913 at the Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Soames married Hope Mary Woodbine Parish (b.