Arthur Colegate

Sir William Arthur Colegate (1884 – 10 September 1956) was a British Conservative Party politician who served in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1955.

Biography Colegate was born in Walworth, London, the son of Robert Colegate and Sarah Elizabeth Pearce. He was educated privately before he entered University College London, where he joined the Fabian Society and acted as a research assistant to Beatrice and Sydney Webb. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in 1904. He then became a civil servant when he entered the Board of Trade in 1910, and was chairman of W.G. Allen & Sons (Tipton) Ltd was a Governor of Harper Adams Agricultural College from 1941 to 1947, and President of the Rural District Councils Association. at the 1950 general election, holding his seat in 1951, and standing down at the 1955 general election, the same year that he was knighted. The couple had four daughters, one of whom was the writer Isabel Colegate. His wife predeceased him in 1955.

Estates Besides in London, Colegate had homes at Redbourne Hall near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and Church Aston Manor near Newport, Shropshire in 1945 and at the time of his death lived at Bembridge, Isle of Wight.