Background
The member of a family that had been settled at Whiligh in Sussex for many centuries, Courthope was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel George John Courthope and his wife Elinor Sarah, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Loyd.
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Education
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and was later called to the Bar, Inner Temple.
Career
He never held ministerial office but was sworn of the Privy Council in 1937. Courthope was created a Baronet, of Whiligh in the County of Sussex, in 1925, and in 1945 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Courthope, of Whiligh in the County of Sussex. Lord Courthope married firstly Hilda Gertrude, daughter of Major-General Henry Pelham Close, in 1899.
They had two daughters.
Lord Courthope died in September 1955, aged 78. As he had no male issue the baronetcy and barony became extinct.
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Membership
28th United Kingdom Parliament. 29th United Kingdom Parliament. 30th United Kingdom Parliament.
31st United Kingdom Parliament.
32nd United Kingdom Parliament. 33rd United Kingdom Parliament.
34th United Kingdom Parliament. 35th United Kingdom Parliament.
36th United Kingdom Parliament.
37th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Rye in the 1906 general election, a seat he held until 1945.
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Political Party
Conservative Party