Walter Preston (British politician)


Sir Walter Reuben Preston was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Mile End constituency in the East End of London. He lost the seat at the 1923 general election to the Labour Party candidate John Scurr.
He returned to Parliament at a by-election in September 1928 for the Cheltenham constituency, and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1937.

Career

Walter Reuben Preston was an engineer. He has 35 patents and some of these were obtained jointly with well-known locomotive engineers, such as Richard Deeley. Details of the patents can be found at
Espacenet.

Personal life

Educated at Bedford School, Preston married Ella Margaret Morris at Hayes between April and June 1900. There are memorial inscriptions to both at Holy Trinity Church, Long Newnton, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.