Gilbert Acland-Troyte

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Gilbert John Acland-Troyte CMG, DSO, JP (4 September 1876 – 27 April 1964) was a British soldier and politician.

The son of Colonel Charles Arthur William Troyte and Katherine Mary Walrond, he was educated at Eton College, Berkshire and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, receiving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900. Acland-Troyte fought in the Second Boer War one year later, where he was dangerously wounded and, in Somaliland from 1903 to 1904. In the First World War, he was mentioned in despatches seven times, and was decorated with the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerre in 1916. In the following year, he became also a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).

Acland-Troyte was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tiverton from 1924 to 1945. Invested as a knight in 1945, he was Master of Foxhounds of Tiverton between 1946 to 1950. He was Justice of Peace and County Alderman of Devon. On 12 October 1909, he married Gwladys Eleanor Quicke, daughter of Ernest Henry Godolphin Quicke.

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