Ernest George Pretyman

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Rt Hon. Ernest George Pretyman PC JP DL (13 November 1860 - 26 November 1931) was a British politician.

The son of Rev. F. Pretyman, Canon of Lincoln, he was educated at Eton and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He entered the Royal Artillery in 1880 and retired in 1889.

In 1894 he married Lady Beatrice Adine Bridgeman, daughter of the 4th Earl of Bradford.

He served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Woodbridge, Suffolk from 1895-1906 and for Chelmsford from 1908-1923. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1900-1903, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1903-1906, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1915-1916 and Civil Lord of the Admiralty again from 1916 to 1919. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1917.

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