Ronald Cartland
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Major John Ronald Hamilton Cartland MP |
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| Member of Parliament for Birmingham King's Norton |
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In office 14 November 1935 – 30 May 1940 |
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| Preceded by | Lionel Beaumont Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Basil Arthur John Peto |
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| Born |
3 January 1907 Birmingham, England, UK |
| Died | 30 May 1940 (aged 33) near Cassel, France |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Relations | Barbara Cartland (sister) |
| Alma mater | Charterhouse School |
Major John Ronald Hamilton Cartland (3 January 1907 — 30 May 1940) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for King's Norton in Birmingham from 1935 until he was killed in action in 1940, aged 33. He was the brother of prolific romance author, Barbara Cartland.
Ronald Cartland was the son of Major Bertram Cartland and Mary Hamilton Scobell, and the younger brother of novelist Barbara Cartland. His paternal grandfather was a wealthy Birmingham brass founder, who died four years before Ronald's birth. When the family's wealth diminished following the death of Ronald's grandmother, his father and his family moved to a rented farmhouse near the town of Pershore, in Worcestershire. In 1910 Bertram Cartland then went to work for the local Conservative Party office, where he managed the election of the Tory MP candidate. When the candidate won the election, he offered Bertram the post of private secretary. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Bertram volunteered for military duty, and was sent to France. He was killed near Berry-au-Bac, France, in 1918, just five months before the Armistice.
In 1919 Mary Cartland – along with Ronald, her 18-year-old daughter Barbara and 8-year-old son Anthony – moved to London, and Ronald gained a scholarship to Charterhouse School, a public school in Surrey. While there he expressed his desire to become a Conservative MP – but at the same time, he held progressive views that were at odds with the Tory party, and the prevailing social norms at Charterhouse. When Ronald was a child, Mary Cartland would take him with her on her trips to some of the more poverty-stricken areas of Pershore, giving him a first-hand look at their dire economic straits. After he left Charterhouse, Mary Cartland could not afford to send her son to university, so Ronald went to work at the Conservative Party Central Office in London.
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