Andrew Gault
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Brigadier General The Rt. Hon. A. Hamilton Gault |
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| Member of Parliament (UK) for Taunton | |
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In office 1924–1935 |
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| Preceded by | Sir John Hope Simpson |
| Succeeded by | Edward Wickham |
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18 August 1882 Margate, Kent |
| Died | 28 November 1958 (aged 76) Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec |
| Political party | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Residence | Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
Brigadier General Andrew Hamilton Gault DSO, MP (18 August 1882 – 28 November 1958) was a Canadian Army officer and British politician. At his own expense, he raised the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the last privately raised regiment in the British Empire. Hatch Court in Somerset (the home he purchased from the aunt of his second wife) today houses a small museum commemorating Gault's military career. From 1924 to 1935 he was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Taunton, Somerset. Returning to Quebec after World War II, Gault vigilantly defended his estate of Mont Saint-Hilaire from expropriation by mining interests and bequeathed it to McGill University to help ensure its preservation.
Known as 'Hammie', he was born in England, the only son of a native of Strabane, Andrew Frederick Gault (1833–1903), of Rokeby in Montreal's Golden Square Mile; and his wife Louise Sarah Harman (1847–1937), daughter of Henry B. Harman, of Surrey. His middle name, which he used as his first, was for his paternal grandmother's family, the Hamiltons of Fintra House, near Killybegs, Co. Donegal. His uncles included the Hon. Matthew Hamilton Gault and Sir James Welsh Skelton, and when his father (the Cotton King of Canada) died in 1915, he, his mother and sister inherited just over $1.3 million each.
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