Anthony Muirhead

Who was Anthony Muirhead?

Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony John Muirhead MC & Bar TD was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament for Wells in Somerset, and held the seat until his death in 1939, aged 48.

Muirhead served in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in the First World War, reaching the rank of Captain being awarded the Military Cross in 1917 and a Bar while serving as Brigade Major of the 119th Infantry Brigade at Armentières in the closing days of the war in 1918. He was promoted to Brevet Major in 1919.

In 1924 he transferred to the 100th Field Brigade, Royal Field Artillery and was granted the full rank of Major. In 1933 he was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1936 he was promoted to full Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the brigade. In 1939, he transferred to the 53rd Anti-Tank Regiment.

In the National Government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, he held junior ministerial office as Under-Secretary of State for Air from 1937 to 1938, and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India and Burma from 1938 to 1939.