[go: up one dir, main page]
Wikipedia

Alec Cunningham-Reid: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
GreenC bot (talk | contribs)
Bots
2,437,449 edits
Rescued 2 archive links. Wayback Medic 2.5
GreenC bot (talk | contribs)
Bots
2,437,449 edits
 
(16 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown)
Line 1:
{{Short description|British flying ace and politician (1895–1977)}}
{{Cleanup bare URLs|date=May 2021}}
 
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
Line 6 ⟶ 5:
| name = Alec Cunningham-Reid
| honorific_suffix = {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100%|DFC}}
| image = Alec-Stratford-Cunningham-Reid.jpeg
| caption = Cunningham-Reid in 1924
| parliament = United Kingdom
| office constituency_MP = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[St Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency)|St Marylebone]]
| term_start = 28 April 1932
| term_end = 5 July 1945
| predecessor = [[Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell|Sir Rennell Rodd, Bt]]
| successor = [[Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal|Wavell Wakefield]]
| office1 constituency_MP1 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Warrington (UK Parliament constituency)|Warrington]]
| term_start1 = 29 October 1924
| term_end1 = 30 May 1929
| predecessor1 = [[Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston|Charles Dukes]]
| successor1 = [[Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston|Charles Dukes]]
| term_start2 = 15 November 1922
| term_end2 = 6 December 1923
| predecessor2 = [[Harold Smith (British politician)|Sir Harold Smith]]
| successor2 = [[Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston|Charles Dukes]]
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|4|20|df=yes}}
Line 29:
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| otherparty =
| spouse = {{ubl|{{Marriage|[[Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley]]|1927|1940|end=divorced}} <br />| {{Marriage|Angela Williams|1944|1949|end=divorced}}}}
| children = 2
| education =
| alma_mater =
| nickname =
| allegiance = {{UK}}United Kingdom
| branch = {{ubl|[[British Army]]<br />|[[Royal Air Force]]}}
| serviceyears =
| rank = Captain
| unit = {{ubl|[[Royal Engineers]]<br />|[[No. 85 Squadron RAF]]}}
| commands =
| battles = [[World War I|First World War]]
| mawards = [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)|Distinguished Flying Cross]]
| relations =
}}
[[Captain (United Kingdom)|Captain]] '''Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DFC}} (20 April 1895 – 26 March 1977<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm |title=Historical list of MPs: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "S" |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |access-date=21 November 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220043003/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm |archive-date=20 December 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>), known in his early life as '''Alec Stratford Reid''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[World War I|First World War]] [[flying ace]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/by_name.php?pageNum_names=1&totalRows_names=101&KT_az=R|title=The Aces of World War 1|work=TheAerodrome.com|access-date=28 November 2009}}</ref> credited with seven aerial victories.<ref name="the-aerodrome">{{cite web|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/reid1.php|title=Alec Reid|work=TheAerodrome.com|access-date=21 November 2009}}</ref> After the war, he entered politics as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]], serving as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for periods between 1922 and 1945.▼
 
▲[[Captain (United Kingdom)|Captain]] '''Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DFC}} (20 April 1895 – 26 March 1977<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm |title=Historical list of MPs: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "S" |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220043003/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm |archive-date=20 December 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>), known in his early life as '''Alec Stratford Reid''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[World War I|First World War]] [[flying ace]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/by_name.php?pageNum_names=1&totalRows_names=101&KT_az=R|title=The Aces of World War 1|work=TheAerodrome.com|access-date=28 November 2009}}</ref> credited with seven aerial victories.<ref name="the-aerodrome">{{cite web|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/reid1.php|title=Alec Reid|work=TheAerodrome.com|access-date=21 November 2009}}</ref> After the war, he entered politics as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]], serving as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for periods between 1922 and 1945.
 
== Early life ==
Line 95 ⟶ 94:
 
The following day, both MPs made a formal apology in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=httphttps://hansardapi.millbanksystemsparliament.comuk/historic-hansard/commons/1943/jul/29/personal-statements#S5CV0391P0_19430729_HOC_382
|title=Personal statements
|date=29 July 1943
|orig-year=House of Commons Debates 29 July 1943 vol 391 columns 1805-7
|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary 1803–2005Debates (Hansard)]]
|access-date=21 November 2009
}}</ref> On 30 July Cunningham-Reid made a personal statement in which he explained to the House that the matter had arisen after Locker-Lampson had accused him of leaving London during [[the Blitz]], whereas he claimed to have departed on a 14-week trip before the Blitz started.<ref>{{cite web
|url=httphttps://hansardapi.millbanksystemsparliament.comuk/historic-hansard/commons/1943/jul/30/personal-statement#S5CV0391P0_19430730_HOC_17
|title=Personal statement
|date=30 July 1943
|orig-year=House of Commons Debates 30 July 1943 vol 391 columns 1931
|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary 1803–2005Debates (Hansard)]]
|access-date=21 November 2009
}}</ref> The incident became front-page news in Britain,<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/471756962.html?dids=471756962:471756962&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+29%2C+1943&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=2+M.+P.s+Fight+After+Dispute+in+Commons&pqatl=google
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131222022/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/471756962.html?dids=471756962:471756962&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+29,+1943&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=2+M.+P.s+Fight+After+Dispute+in+Commons&pqatl=google
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=31 January 2013
|title=2 M. P.s Fight After Dispute in Commons
|date=29 July 1943
Line 116 ⟶ 118:
|access-date=21 November 2009
|quote=A fist fight between two members of commons vied with the war news for space on the front pages of London's newspapers today
}}</ref> and was reported in several major American newspapers&nbsp;— including the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', which ran the story under the headline "England Grins as Members of Commons Trade Punches".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/418512161.html?dids=418512161:418512161&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+29%2C+1943&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=England+Grins+as+Members+of+Commons+Trade+Punches&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023192155/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/418512161.html?dids=418512161:418512161&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+29,+1943&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=England+Grins+as+Members+of+Commons+Trade+Punches&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 October 2012|title=England Grins as Members of Commons Trade Punches|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=29 July 1943|page=14|access-date=21 November 2009}}</ref>
 
== Personal life ==
Line 126 ⟶ 128:
| title = Milestones: May 23, 1927
| date = 23 May 1927
| workmagazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]]
| access-date =21 November 2009
}}</ref> had two children: Michael Duncan Alec Cunningham-Reid (1928–2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://peeragenews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/michael-duncan-alec-cunningham-reid.html|title = Peerage News: Michael Duncan Alec Cunningham-Reid 1928-2014|date = 13 February 2014}}</ref> and Noel Robert Cunningham-Reid (1930–2017).<ref name="thepeerage.com" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/peerage-news/-N3IHXP-TYw|title = Redirecting to Google Groups}}</ref> On their honeymoon, she insisted that they share her wealth because "no decent woman likes to have a man live with her in charity", but when the couple divorced in 1940, he sued for half of her $400,000 annual income.<ref name="time-mag-1943-08-09">{{cite news
| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,766957,00.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080308122829/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,766957,00.html
Line 135 ⟶ 137:
| title = Foreign News: Old Boys
| date = 9 August 1943
| workmagazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]]
| access-date =21 November 2009
}}</ref>
 
In 1944 Cunningham-Reid married secondly Angela Williams, and they were divorced about 1949. During the [[World War II|Second World War]] he conducted an affair with the American heiress [[Doris Duke]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/who-wants-to-be-a-billionairess-1585419.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105052110/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/who-wants-to-be-a-billionairess-1585419.html |archive-date=2012-11-05 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Who wants to be a billionairess?|last=Usborne|first=David|date=8 June 1995|work=The Independent|access-date=21 November 2009|location=London}}</ref>
 
== Death ==
Line 145 ⟶ 147:
 
== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}
 
== External links ==
Line 154 ⟶ 156:
{{s-par|uk}}
{{succession box
| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Warrington (UK Parliament constituency)|Warrington]]
| years = [[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922]] – [[1923 United Kingdom general election|1923]]
| before = [[Harold Smith (British politician)|Sir Harold Smith]]
| after = [[Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston|Charles Dukes]]
}}
{{succession box
| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Warrington (UK Parliament constituency)|Warrington]]
| years = [[1924 United Kingdom general election|1924]] – [[1929 United Kingdom general election|1929]]
| before = [[Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston|Charles Dukes]]
| after = [[Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston|Charles Dukes]]
}}
{{succession box
| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[St Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency)|St Marylebone]]
| years = [[1932 St Marylebone by-election|1932]] – [[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945]]
| before = [[Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell|Sir Rennell Rodd, Bt]]
| after = [[Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal|Wavell Wakefield]]
Line 188 ⟶ 190:
[[Category:Royal Engineers officers]]
[[Category:Royal Air Force officers]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Norfolk]]
[[Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Cunningham-Reid"