Stafford Vere Hotchkin

Who was Stafford Vere Hotchkin?

Stafford Vere Hotchkin was an English landowner, soldier, High Sheriff of Rutland and briefly a Conservative Member of Parliament.

He was the only son of Thomas John Stafford Hotchkin of The Manor House, Woodhall Spa by Mary Charlotte Edith Lucas, elder daughter of George Vere Braithwaite of Edith Weston Hall. He married Dorothy Arnold in 1906. Their issue included Neil Stafford Hotchkin.

He served in the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery in the First World War and had previously served in 21st Lancers. He was awarded the Military Cross.

Hotchkin developed an interest in golf course architecture and he set up his own golf course design company, Ferigna, in the late 1920s. He had provided the land for Woodhall Spa Golf Club and later redesigned the course. He also designed a number of links courses in South Africa.

He narrowly won the by-election for Horncastle for the Liberal-Conservative Coalition on 25 February 1920 but lost the seat in the 1922 General Election to the Liberal Samuel Pattinson.