About Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet
Lived 1828 – 1894 (aged 66). Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet was a British politician.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet (19 February 1828 – 10 October 1894) was an English soldier and sportsman.
Life He was the son of the 2nd Baronet (created 1821), Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, and his wife Emma Dorothea Lethbridge, and a descendant of Lord Astley.
From 1848 to 1859, he served in the Scots Fusilier Guards, seeing action in the Crimean War and retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1873. From 1874 to 1880, he was the Conservative Member of Parliament for North Lincolnshire, as his father-in-law had been before him.
Shortly before his death in October 1894, he published entertaining reminiscences under the title Fifty Years of My Life. This contains the first recorded appearance of the phrase 'like a duck to water' – I always took to shooting like a duck to water.
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British politician (1828-1894)
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Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet was born on 19 February 1828.
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Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet died on 10 October 1894 in London.
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Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet was a politician.
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