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Major Maurice Petherick

05 Oct 1894 - 04 Aug 1985

Postings

Unit or location	Role	Posted from	until
Coleshill House, GHQ	Commanding Officer Special Duties	Unknown	14 Mar 1942

Education

Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge

National ID

AMCH 179/5

Regiment

General List

Military number

80229

Commissioned or Enlisted

14 Oct 1939

Occupation

Member of Parliament

Career

Commissioned Royal Devon Yeomanry 1914,
Invalided out of Army 1915,
Foreign Office 1916-17,
Commissioned Royal Scots Greys 1917, France 1918

Address

Porthpean House, Porthpean, St Austell, Cornwall

Other information

1931-1945 MP for Penryn and Falmouth, Cornwall,

1953-1971 Director of the Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd,

19 Feb 1957 Sheriff of Cornwall.

He wrote three books, including Victoire, a novel about resistance in France published in 1943.

In 1939 he is living at 18 Gledhow Gardens, North Kensington, London, with staff, for work at the Houses of Parliament. His home at Porthpean House was later utilized by the Cornwall Scout Section.

In 1981 Maurice (87) and his brother Lieutenant Colonel William Petherick (83) tackled an intruder in Porthpean House. The man was winded and they managed to bundle the burglar outside. He sped off in a car but immediately hit a wall and was soon arrested.

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