Chichester Crookshank


Lieutenant Colonel Chichester de Windt Crookshank was a British Army officer and Unionist Member of Parliament, for Berwick and Haddington from 1924 until 1929; and for Bootle from 1931 until he retired in 1935.

Military career

Crookshank was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 23 July 1887, promoted to lieutenant on 23 July 1890, and to captain on 1 April 1898. He served in the Second Boer War, and was slightly wounded in the battle of Paardeberg. He was then attached to the 7th Infantry division of the South Africa Field Force. In 1932 he was assigned as the King's Body Guard.

Political career

Crookshank was the Unionist Member of Parliament for Berwick and Haddington from 1924. He was unseated in 1929 by George Sinkinson of the Labour Party; and was returned to the House of Commons as Conservative MP for Bootle at the 1931 general election. Crookshank retired at the end of that Parliament in 1935.