Major Edgar Mortimer Lafone, OBE

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Major Edgar Mortimer Lafone, OBE

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hanworth, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Death: 1938 (70-71)
Immediate Family:

Son of Alfred Lafone, MP and Jane Boutcher
Husband of Beryl Nina Eden Chichele-Plowden
Father of Captain Michael William Millicent Lafone and Linnet Pamela Millicent Lafone
Brother of Alfred William Lafone; Harold Lafone; Maurice Lafone; Captain William Boutcher Lafone; Rear-Admiral Albert Sumner Lafone, CBE, FRZS and 3 others

Occupation: Officer in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars; Chief Constable Metropolitan Police
Managed by: Bill Barnes
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About Major Edgar Mortimer Lafone, OBE


Edgar Mortimore Lafone, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Constable Metropolitan Police, Major late 4th Hussars, b. 1867 ; m., Beryl, d. of Sir Trevor Chichele Plowden, K. C.S.I. ; and has issue — Michael William Lafone, Gentleman, b.1900; and Linnet. Res. — 10 Embankment Gardens, S.W. 3.

Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Volume 2) page 24


Major Edgar Mortimer Lafone died before 1963.
He was appointed Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)
Children of Major Edgar Mortimer Lafone

  1. Linnet Pamela Millicent Lafone
  2. Michael William Lafone+ b. 24 Mar 1900, d. 1966

The Peerage


Army lists:

From findmypast 19010331 census Edgar M Lafone 33 Beryl 29 Michael 1 at 9 St Georges Place Canterbury Kent

31 March 1901 census for residents of [9 St George's Place, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1UT 51.2763723, 1.0853728]

  • Edgar M Lafone, head, married, male aged 33 [born about 1868] in Denmark Hill, London; Captain 4th Hussars
  • Beryl Lafone, wife, married, female aged 29 [born about 1872] in India
  • Michael Lafone, son, single, male aged 1 [born about 1900] in Hanworth, Middlesex
  • Jessie J Moore, servant, single, female aged 33 [born about 1868] in St. John's Wood, London; Nurse (Domestic)
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Major Edgar Mortimer Lafone, OBE's Timeline

1867
1867
Hanworth, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
1900
March 23, 1900
Hanworth Park House, Forest Road, Feltham , London, TW13 7EY, England (United Kingdom)
1938
1938
Age 71
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