Career
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours for his efforts during the First World War. A by-election was carried out on the 13th of February 1926 in which Withers was unopposed. He was knighted in the 1929 Dissolution Honours for political and public service.
He later died in office during a Conservative majority, and was replaced by Archibald Vivian Hill.
Withers was a pupil at Eton college, and then went on to read law at Kings College at the University of Cambridge.
