Cuthbert Headlam

Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, 1st Baronet, DSO, OBE, TD, DL, JP (27 April 1876 – 27 February 1964) was a British Conservative politician.

Born in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire, the third of the five sons of Francis John Headlam (1829–1908), stipendiary magistrate of Manchester, and his wife, Matilda (née Pincoffs).

[1] Headlam was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and then read modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received his BA in March 1900.

He served with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry from 1910 to 1926,[3] was mentioned in despatches in the First World War and awarded the Distinguished Service Order[4] and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, retiring as lieutenant colonel.

He was returned to the House of Commons for a third time at a by-election in June 1940 as MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North, after standing as an "Independent Conservative" and beating the official Conservative Party candidate.