Richard Hamilton Rawson

Colonel Richard Hamilton Rawson, JP, DL (21 February 1863 – 11 October 1918) was a British Army officer and later a Conservative and National Party politician.

Richard Geoffrey Hamilton Rawson, also educated at Eton, died young as a result of a horse-riding accident, leaving a son.

The eldest daughter, Beatrice Violet Rawson (later Lady Leconfield) married Charles Wyndham, and went on to live at Petworth House, Sussex.

[6] As a result, he was successful in the 1910 general election, winning Reigate by a large majority and defeating the incumbent Liberal MP, Harry Cunningham Brodie.

[8] Colonel Rawson died in Belgravia a month before the Armistice was signed, ending the First World War, and consequently never saw victory.