Major General The Rt Hon the 1st Lord Mottistone PC, CB, CMG, DSO

Major General The Rt Hon the 1st Lord Mottistone PC, CB, CMG, DSO
Title:Major General The Rt Hon the 1st Lord
Surname:Mottistone
Post-nominals:PC, CB, CMG, DSO
Year elected:1918
Last year on list:1947
Elected as:Major General the Rt Hon John E B Seely, CB, CMG, DSO
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Major General John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone CB, CMG, DSO, TD, PC, JP, DL (31 May 1868 – 7 November 1947) was an Army General and a politician.

He was a Conservative MP from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924.  He was Secretary of State for War for the two years prior to the First World War, before being forced to resign as a result of the Curragh Incident.

As General Jack Seely, he led one of the last great cavalry charges in history at the Battle of Moreuil Wood on his war horse Warrior in March 1918. Seely was a great friend of Winston Churchill and the only former cabinet minister to go to the front in 1914 and still be there four years later.

Yachts Owned

NameRig ClassfromtoMMSI
Izmé, later Audrey Yawl 1922 1924  
Izmé II Cutter 1923 1928  
Izmé III Cutter 1931 1934  
Mayflower Auxiliary Cutter 1935 1939-45  
Sandpiper Bermudan Cutter, then Sloop 1940-46 1947  

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