Lord Alexander Thynne

Lord Alexander Thynne

Lord Alexander George Boteville Thynne DSO (17 February 1873-16 September 1918), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.

Thynne was the third and youngest son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, and his wife Frances Isabella Catherine (née Vesey). He was a Major in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and a temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Service Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment and served in the Second Boer War and in the Somaliland campaign of 1903 to 1904. In the January 1910 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as one of two representatives for Bath. During the First World War Thynne was twice wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerre. He was killed in action on 14 September 1918, aged 45. He never married.

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