Richard Pope-Hennessy
Maj-Gen. Ladislaus Herbert Richard Pope-Hennessy (1875-1 March 1942), was a British Liberal Party politician and soldier of Irish Catholic descent.
Background
He was the eldest son of Sir John Pope-Hennessy MP, of Rostellan Castle, County Cork and Catherine Elizabeth Low. He was educated at Beaumont College. He married, in 1910, Una Birch a writer, historian and biographer. They had two sons,[1] James who became a writer and John an art historian.
Military career
Pope-Hennessy got highly decorated for participating in combat in Africa before World War I. During the latter he served in France, Iraq and India.[2]
He was Commander of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division and area from 1931-35. He served as a staff officer at the War Office and was Military Inter-Allied Commissioner of Control in Berlin. Subsequently he was for three years Military Attaché at Washington.[3]
Pope-Hennessy published a number of books an articles on military matters and in one of them he predicted the technique of the German Blitzkrieg.[2]
Political career
He took particular interest in military matters and in issues affecting his native Ireland. In 1919 he had published 'The Irish Dominion: a Method of Approach to a Settlement'.[4] He was Liberal candidate for the Tonbridge Division of Kent at the 1935 General Election. Tonbridge was a safe Conservative seat that they had won at every election since it was created in 1918. The Liberal Party had not fielded a candidate at the previous General election and he was not expected to win and finished a poor third.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Rt Hon. Herbert Henry Spender-Clay | 23,460 | 61.3 | ||
| Labour | F M Landau | 9,405 | 24.6 | ||
| Liberal | Ladislaus Herbert Richard Pope-Hennessy | 5,403 | 14.1 | ||
| Majority | 14,055 | 36.7 | |||
| Turnout | 68.2 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ^ http://www.ukWhosWho.com
- ^ a b James Wassermann (ed.): Secret Societies: Illuminati, Freemasons and the French Revolution. Nicolas Hayes, 2007, ISBN 978-0892541324, pp. 49-50
- ^ The Times House of Commons, 1935
- ^ http://www.ukWhosWho.com
- ^ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.