Frank Hilder

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Frank Hilder (3 October 1864 - 23 April 1951) [1] was the Conservative MP for the South East Essex constituency from 1918 to 1923.

Hilder was born in 1854, the son of Edward Martin Hilder of Ash, Kent. He was educated privately. [1]

In 1895 he married Evelyn Mary Wood, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel G W Wood, in Ingatestone, Essex. [2] The couple lived at Huskards also in Ingatestone. [3]

He was an officer in the Essex Yeomanry, in which regiment he was promoted to captain on 20 December 1902. [4]

In 1906 Hilder was made a Justice of the Peace for the county of Essex. [5]

At the beginning of the First World War the Hilders turned Huskards into a Voluntary Auxiliary hospital, with Mrs Hilder acting as matron. It remained a VA hospital until it was closed in 1919. [6] [7]

He stood as the Unionist candidate for the South-East Essex constituency in the 1918 General Election, the first General Election following the end of the First World War. He defeated the Labour candidate Joe Cotter and the Liberal candidate Sydney Walter Robinson. [8] He stood again in the following General Election held in 1922. He defended his seat against the Labour candidate Philip Hoffman, winning by 13,522 votes to 11,459. [9] However, the following year there was another General Election and this time the Labour candidate Philip Hoffman defeated Hilder by 13,979 votes to 12,379. [10]

In 1935 Hilder was appointed the High Sheriff of Essex. [6]

He died at his home in Ingatestone on 23 April 1951 aged 86. [1] There’s a Plaque with his name on in Walton on the Naze on the YMCA building

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  2. ↑ "Marriage of Miss E. M. Wood, of Ingatestone" . Essex County Chronicle . No. 6833. 27 September 1895. p. 3. Retrieved 28 August 2019– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Hilder, Lieut-Col Frank, (3 Oct. 1864–23 April 1951), DL; JP" . WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u238575 . Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "No. 27505". The London Gazette . 19 December 1902. p. 8761.
  5. ↑ "Forty-one New Justices" . Essex County Chronicle. No. 7403. 31 August 1906. p. 5. Retrieved 23 September 2019– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. 1 2 "The New High Sheriff" . Essex Chronicle. No. 8898. 29 March 1935. p. 7. Retrieved 24 September 2019– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Wounded Leave Huskards - Presentation to Mrs Hilder" . Essex County Chronicle. No. 8054. 24 January 1919. p. 5. Retrieved 24 September 2019– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "The Election - Complete Essex Results" . Essex Newsman. No. 2556. 4 January 1919. p. 3. Retrieved 28 August 2019– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "The Election - Complete Essex Results" . Essex Chronicle . No. 8253. 17 November 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 28 August 2019– via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ "The Election in Essex" . Essex Chronicle. No. 8309. 14 December 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2019– via British Newspaper Archive.
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