Dennis Coleridge Boles

Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis Coleridge Boles (4 June 1885 – 25 April 1958) was a soldier and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wells in Somerset at a by-election in December 1939, and held the seat until he stepped down at the 1951 general election.

Dennis Boles was the son of Francis James Coleridge Boles (brother of Sir Dennis Boles) of Rackenford Manor, Devon and Charlotte Jones (sister of Walter Jones). He was educated at Eton, where he was President of "Pop", and set a record score of 183 in the Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord's in 1904. He also played cricket for Devon in the Minor Counties Championship between 1903 and 1909.^[1] After Sandhurst, where he won the Sword of Honour, he was commissioned in the 17th Lancers and served in India. In the Great War he served on the Staff of the 5th Indian Cavalry Brigade in France, and then saw active service in France and Ireland as Adjutant of the 17th Lancers. Dennis was a noted polo player, winning the Coronation Cup for the 17th Lancers against an Argentine team in 1922, and playing for the British Army against the American Army in 1925. In 1928 he became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, and Silver Stick to the King, before leaving the Army in 1936. He married Monica, the daughter of John Reid-Walker of Ruckley Grange, Shifnal, in 1921 and had two sons and one daughter.

References

1. ^ His cricket career

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Dennis Boles

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Anthony Muirhead	Member of Parliament for Wells 1939–1951	Succeeded by Lynch Maydon

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Name	Boles, Dennis Coleridge
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Date of birth	4 June 1885
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Date of death	25 April 1958
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