Francis Fremantle

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis Edward Fremantle, OBE, DL, FRCS, FRCP[1] (29 May 1872 – 26 August 1943)[2] was a British physician and Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans from 1919 until his death.

[3] Fremantle held a commission as a surgeon-captain in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, and served as a medical officer with the British Army in the Second Boer War.

During the First World War he rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Mesopotamia.

[4] Later in the year, Hildred Carlile, the Conservative MP for St Albans, resigned from the House of Commons[5] due to ill-health.

Fremantle was selected as the Coalition Conservative candidate for the resulting by-election held in December, and was elected despite a strong challenge from the Labour Party.