William Baring du Pré

Colonel William Baring du Pré (5 April 1875 – 23 August 1946) was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Wycombe at a by-election in 1914, when the Conservative MP Charles Cripps was elevated to the peerage as Baron Parmoor.

Du Pré was re-elected at the 1918 general election as a Coalition Conservative, but faced a strong challenge at the 1922 general election from the Liberal candidate Lady Terrington. He held his seat with a majority of 4,473, but in December the following year, at the 1923 general election, Lady Terrington took the seat with a majority of 1,682. Du Pré was a strong opponent of the women's rights advocated by Terrington, so his defeat was welcomed by women's groups. [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Lady Terrington]

Du Pré was originally commissioned into the Leicestershire Yeomanry, but later transferred to the Royal Artillery.

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