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General George Darell Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (8 March 1878 – 19 December 1960), was a British military commander and Conservative Member of Parliament. Jeffreys attended Eton and Sandhurst before being commissioned into the Grenadier Guards. He saw action in Africa and in the Boer War as a young officer, and went to France with his battalion at the start of the First World War. He served on the Western Front throughout the war, rising to command the 2nd Grenadier Guards, then a series of infantry brigades, before being promoted to command 19th (Western) Division from September 1917 until the end of the war. Following the Armistice, he commanded a division in the forces occupying Germany, and then held various commands until he retired from the Army in 1938. From 1925 onwards he served as a magistrate and county councillor in Hampshire, and after retirement increased his involvement with local administration. He chaired a series of local bodies, and in 1941 was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of Petersfield. He retired from Parliament at the 1951 election, and was created a peer the following year, as Baron Jeffreys. He continued to sit in the House of Lords until his death in 1960. ==Early life and family== George Darrell Jeffreys was born on 8 March 1878.〔''Who Was Who''〕 His father, Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, was a rural landowner, with an estate at Burkham, near Alton, Hampshire; he would later be elected to Parliament, as a Conservative, and hold the seat for almost thirty years. He had married Amy Fenwick in 1877; they would have four children, George and his three younger sisters.〔 *"JEFFREYS, Rt Hon. Arthur Frederick". (2007). In ''Who Was Who''. (Online edition )〕 Jeffreys was educated at Eton College before entering the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.〔 He passed out of Sandhurst in 1897, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 3 May 1897.〔''Quarterly Army List, 1919'', p. 54''b''.〕 In 1905, he married Dorothy, Viscountess Cantelupe. She was the widow of Lionel, Viscount Cantelupe, the eldest son of the Earl De La Warr, an officer in the Royal West Kent Regiment, who had died a few months after their marriage in 1890. The two would have one son, Christopher, a captain in the Grenadier Guards, who died in the Battle of France in 1940.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (second creation)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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