Colonel Sir Thomas Andrew Polson, KBE, CMG, TD[1] (28 August 1865 – 22 August 1946[2]) was an Anglo-Irish[citation needed] writer who was briefly the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover.
Colson was born in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, the eldest surviving son of Thomas Andrew Polson, Tuam agent for Bradford city wool buyers.
He was commissioned an officer in the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders), where he was promoted to captain on 21 July 1902,[3] and to major on the following day.
He married Elizabeth Lindsay of Edinburgh in 1918, while Chief Inspector of the Army Clothing Department.
[citation needed] Polson was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in January 1921, after the Conservative MP Viscount Duncannon had succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Bessborough.