Sir Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho KBE CB DSO (20 April 1882 – 18 December 1969) was a Cornish landowner and politician.
[2] Bolitho was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1900 and served in the Great War of 1914 to 1918, in which he was twice mentioned in despatches and twice wounded.
He was honoured with the Distinguished Service Order in 1919 and later that year retired from the regular army later, but continued to serve in the Territorial Army; he was President of the Cornwall TA Association 1936–62 and Honorary Colonel of the 56th (Cornwall) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1937.
[2] His uncle, Thomas Robins Bolitho, (1840-1925), an English banker, who served as High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1890, bequeathed Trengwainton, a country house near Penzance, to him.
[5] Douglas Reeman, a historical novelist who, under the pseudonym Alexander Kent, wrote a series of naval novels set during the Age of Sail about a British officer called Richard Bolitho.