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A UNIONIST M.P. Bj Tilceranh—Press Assoclation-OoDyrleM London, May 20. . The death is announced of the Right Hon. Sir. Hy. Aubrey-Fletcher (Unionist M.P., for Lewes Division of Sussex); aged 75. > [The Kt. Hon. Sir . Honry AiihreyMetcher was a large landowner in Sussex. He sat for Horsham from 18S0 to 1685, and represented liis present constituency since 1886. Bom in 1835, ho went to Eton; then he joined the 69th Regiment in 1853, and two years later served in the' Grenadier Guards, and retired from the Army in 1859. He was for a lew months Parliamentary Groom-in-Waiting- to Queen Victoria, and commanded Sussex and Kent- Volunteer Infantry Brigade. In 1903 he assumed the additional name of Aubrey by Koyal license. His seat appears to be a safe Unionist one. His lowest majority—in the Liberal year 1906—was 1714; in January last it was 4596J
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 823, 23 May 1910, Page 7
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