Anthony Muirhead

Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony John Muirhead MC & Bar TD (4 November 1890 – 29 October 1939) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton College, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wells in Somerset, and held the seat until his death in 1939, aged 48.

Military career Having been a member of Oxford University Officers' Training Corps, Muirhead was commissioned into the Territorial Force (TF) on the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 as a Second lieutenant in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1915. He served as Aide-de-camp to Major-General Robert Fanshawe, General Officer Commanding 48th (South Midland) Division. He was promoted to Captain in May 1917 and was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in June that year. He became a General Staff Officer Grade 3 with 48th Divisional Headquarters in September 1917, and then was appointed Brigade major to 119th Brigade under the command of Brigadier-General Frank Percy Crozier. In January 1919 Muirhead was awarded a Bar to his MC for his service with 119th Bde at Armentières in the closing days of the war in 1918. He was promoted to Brevet Major in January 1919 and was also Mentioned in dispatches three times during the war.