Ernest George Pretyman
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Ernest George Pretyman PC JP DL (13 November 1860 – 26 November 1931) was a British Conservative Party 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. They had several children. His second daughter Marjorie Pretyman was mother of Marjorie "Mollie" Wyndham-Quin, widow of the 6th Marquess of Salisbury and mother of the present Marquess, formerly styled Viscount Cranbourne, sometime Tory leader of the House of Lords in the 1990s.
He served as Member of Parliament (MP) 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.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Robert Lacey Everett |
Member of Parliament for Woodbridge 1895–1906 |
Succeeded by Robert Lacey Everett |
| Preceded by Sir Carne Rasch |
Member of Parliament for Chelmsford 1908–1923 |
Succeeded by Sydney Walter Robinson |
