Lieutenant Colonel Sir Mervyn Edward MANNINGHAM-BULLER, 3rd Baronet of Dilhorne Hall
12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Mervyn Manningham-Buller was born in Winchester in 1876, the son of Major-General Edmund Manningham-Buller and Lady Anne Coke. At the time of the First World War he lived with his wife Lilah and three children at Broomhill, a large 22-roomed house on the outskirts of Spratton. Both Sir Mervyn and his wife took an active and generous part in village affairs and he went on to become MP for Kettering (1924-29) and then MP for Northampton (1931-40).
Sir Mervyn was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1895 when he was 19 years old and served in the 2nd Boer War. During the First World War he was sent to France in July 1915 with the 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was awarded the 1915 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Lady Manningham-Buller worked from 1915 to 1918 organising the Northampton Red Cross Hospital Supply depot. She raised substantial amounts of money for the Red Cross Depot and also for the Prisoners of War Fund.
The Manningham-Bullers left Spratton in the late 1920s and Sir Mervyn died in London in August 1956 aged 80. His granddaughter, Eliza Manningham-Buller was the Director General of MI5, the British internal Security Service from 2002 to 2007. She was admitted to the Order of the Garter in 2014.
Broomhill, Spratton
Broomhill, Spratton
EXPLORE SECTIONS
MEN WHO SERVED
- Private Charles Herbert AUSTIN (known as Herbert)
- Corporal Frank AUSTIN
- Lance Corporal James William AUSTIN
- Private John Samuel AUSTIN
- Sergeant William Henry AUSTIN
- Sergeant Bertie Henry BALDERSON
- Corporal Frederick Charles BALDERSON MM
- Lance Corporal Robert Samuel BALDERSON
- Private George William BUCKBY (known as William)
- Private Henry Andrew BUCKBY
- Richard Henry Horne BUCKBY
- Transport Sergeant Thomas BUCKBY MM
- Company Quartermaster Sergeant William Gander BUCKBY
- William Archibald COPSON (known as Archibald)
- Sapper Ebenezer COPSON
- Private Ernest Edward COPSON
- Pioneer Henry Owman COPSON (known as Harry)
- Private James COPSON
- Private John William COPSON
- Private Joseph COPSON
- Private Arthur Sidney GOODEN (known as Sidney)
- Private Hugh Henry GOODEN
- Sergeant Joseph Eric GOODEN (known as Eric)
- Private Arthur Thomas HAYTER
- Driver Frank Leonard HAYTER
- Private Harold Herbert HAYTER
- Lance Corporal John Charles HAYTER DCM (known as Jack)
- Private Walter Ernest HAYTER
- Ordinary Seaman Arthur Charles HORNE
- Private John William HORNE (known as William)
- Lance Corporal Lewis HORNE
- Private Thomas HORNE
- Driver John Henry LEESON
- Corporal Joseph Henry LEESON (known as Harry)
- Thomas Baden Powell LEESON (known as ‘Bard’)
- Private Albert MANNING
- Corporal Amos MANNING
- Private Arthur Cecil MANNING
- Private George MANNING
- Sergeant George William MANNING
- Sapper Henry Stanley MANNING (known as Stanley)
- Private John Thomas MANNING
- Private John William MANNING
- Air Mechanic Nathaniel MANNING
- Driver/Saddler Samuel MANNING
- Gunner George Albert MARTIN
- Private Joseph MARTIN
- Private Thomas Henry MARTIN (known as Harry)
- Private Thomas Walter MARTIN (known as Walter)
- Pioneer Walter Ernest MARTIN
- Sergeant William Higgs MARTIN, DCM
- Private Arthur Walter PAGE
- Private Francis Samuel PAGE (known as Sam)
- Private Frank PAGE
- Private Stephen PAGE
- Lieutenant George REEVE MC MM
- Private Richard Henry REEVE (known as Harry)
- Private Samuel REEVE
- Private Sidney Philip REEVE
- Private Frederick Thomas RICHARDSON
- Private John William RICHARDSON
- Private Percy John Partridge RICHARDSON
- Private Abraham Bert SMITH
- Private Alfred SMITH
- Private Frank SMITH 46648
- Private John Samuel SMITH
- Private John William SMITH (6942)
- Private John William (William John) SMITH (8964)
- Private Charles Walter WADHAMS
- Private John Edward WADHAMS
- Private Thomas Edwin WADHAMS
- Private William WADHAMS