Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham was a Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1935 until 1945.
14 Facts About Edward Wickham
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Edward Wickham had previously served in India from 1910 until 1935, first as an officer in the British Indian Army, and later a member of the Indian Political Department.
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Edward Wickham fulfilled the same duties in 1928 for the King of Afghanistan.
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Edward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham was born on 4 May 1890, to William James Richard Wickham, an officer in the British Indian Army, and his wife Mary Rose.
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Edward Wickham received his early education at The Oratory School in Birmingham.
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Edward Wickham served as the officer in attendance for the King of Afghanistan, Amanullah Khan, in 1928.
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Edward Wickham then served in a variety of overseas roles: as an assistant financial adviser to the government of Persia, a counsellor at the British embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, a secretary to the Baluchistan chief commissioner, and later became the Deputy Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, his final role in India.
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Edward Wickham retired from the Army in January 1935, at which point he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
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Edward Wickham spoke at length on the subject again the following year.
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Edward Wickham was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Florence Horsbrugh in the Ministry of Health in July 1939, and in November 1939 switched to the same role under the Secretary of State for War, Leslie Hore-Belisha.
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When Hore-Belisha resigned from his post six weeks later, Edward Wickham left his position in the War Office.
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Edward Wickham was appointed to another Parliamentary Private Secretary role in June 1940, assisting Victor Warrender, the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.
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Edward Wickham again stood for the Conservative Party, with Victor Collins contesting the seat for Labour.
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Edward Wickham died in Liss, Hampshire, at the age of 67 on 25 August 1957.