- Edward Wakefield
Sir Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, 1st Baronet (
24 July 1903 –14 January 1969 ), was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician.Educated at Haileybury and at
Trinity College, Cambridge , he joined theIndian Civil Service in 1927 and served in Punjab,Rajputana ,Kathiawar , Baluchistan,Central India ,Tibet and thePersian Gulf . He was Chief Minister of Kalat State 1933-1936, of Nabha State 1939-1941 and of Rewa State 1943-1945, and was Joint Secretary, Political Department, Delhi, 1946-1947.He was elected as Conservative
Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire in 1950, holding the seat until 1962. He held a series of appointments as a whip, first as Assistant Whip, 1954-1956; then as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1956-1958; Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household, 1958-1959;Vice-Chamberlain of the Household , 1959-1960; andTreasurer of the Household , 1960-1962.He resigned from the House of Commons in 1962, when he was appointed as Commissioner for Malta, 1962-1964, becoming
High Commissioner 1964-1965.He was appointed a Companion of the
Order of the Indian Empire in 1945, and was created a Baronet, of Kendal in the County of Westmorland, in 1962. His brother,Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal , was also a Conservative politician. Wakefield died in January 1969, aged 65, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Humphrey.References
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* [http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsW1.htm Wakefield, of Kendal, in the county of Westmorland (10 March 1962)]External links
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1333506/Lalage,-Lady-Wakefield.html Obituary of Lalage, Lady Wakefield (1906-2001), Sir Edward's widow] . "Daily Telegraph", 31 October 2001.
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