Cuthbert Headlam

Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, 1st Baronet PC DSO OBE TD (1876–27 February 1964) was a British Conservative politician.

Headlam was educated at King's School, Canterbury and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was a Clerk in the House of Lords 1897-1924 and became a barrister, Inner Temple in 1906. He served with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry from 1910-1926, was mentioned in despatches in World War I and awarded the DSO and OBE, retiring as Lieutenant-Colonel.

Headlam was Member of Parliament for Barnard Castle from 1924-1929 and 1931-1935, and for North Newcastle from 1940-1951. He served in government as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1926-1929; as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions from 1931-1932; and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1932-1934.

Headlam was a Durham County Councillor from 1931-1939, and Justice of the Peace for the County of Durham. He was Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1941. He was created a Baronet in 1935 and appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1945.

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Parliament and politics in the age of Churchill and Attlee: the Headlam diaries, 1935–1951. (1999) edited by Stuart Ball

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Moss Turner-Samuels	Member of Parliament for Barnard Castle 1924–1929	Succeeded by: William Lawther
Preceded by: William Lawther	Member of Parliament for Barnard Castle 1931–1935	Succeeded by: Thomas Miles Sexton
Preceded by: Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle	Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne North 1940–1951	Succeeded by: Gwilym Lloyd-George