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Brigadier-General Sir William Bromley-Davenport KCB, CMG, CBE, DSO, TD, JP, DL , was a British soldier, footballer and Conservative politician. He... fought with distinction in both the Second Boer War and the First World War. An MP from 1886 to 1906, he held political office under Arthur Balfour as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1903 to 1905. Bromley-Davenport was the son of William Bromley Davenport and his wife Augusta Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Walter Campbell, of Islay. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. Bromley-Davenport played football for Oxford University and Old Etonians. He represented England on two occasions in March 1884, against Scotland and Wales respectively. A centre-forward, he scored two goals in the game against Wales. Bromley-Davenport was elected Member of Parliament for Macclesfield in the July 1886 general election. While an MP, he fought in the Second Boer War in the Imperial Yeomanry, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. At the end of 1901, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire.
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George Stovin Venables , born in Wales, was a journalist and a barrister at the English bar. His father was Richard Venables, vicar of Nantmel and... then archdeacon of Carmarthen. He was educated at Eton College, Charterhouse School, and Jesus College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry in 1831, and was a member of The Apostles society from 1832. He became a Fellow of Jesus College. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1836, and was in practice for over 40 years. He also wrote much journalism from the mid-1850s, as a leader writer for the London Times and the Saturday Review. His literary connections included time at Charterhouse with William Makepeace Thackeray ; the character George Warrington in Pendennis is said to be based on Venables. A friendship with Alfred, Lord Tennyson arose from Cambridge days. He wrote an anonymous book of verse Joint Compositions with Henry Lushington. He was an early and favourable reviewer of Thomas Carlyle, another friend.
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