Sidney Streatfeild

Who was Sidney Streatfeild?

Sidney Richard Streatfeild was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.

Sidney Streatfeild was the son of Hugh Streatfeild and Evelyn Cherry. He was educated at Rugby School. He served in the Great War 1914 - 1919 in the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry.

At the 1924 general election he stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative Party candidate in the City of Durham constituency, but after the death in 1925 of Unionist MP Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, he won the Galloway seat at the resulting by-election in 1925.

However, at the 1929 general election, he lost the seat to Cecil Dudgeon, Henniker-Hughan's Liberal predecessor who had been the runner-up in the by-election.

Sidney Streatfeild did not stand for Parliament again.