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Sir John Ralph Starkey, 1st Baronet (1 May 1859 – 13 November 1940)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
Life
He was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Newark at the 1906 general election,[2] and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1922 general election.[3]
In 1910, his gardener planted the first commercial orchard of Bramley apples at Starkey's Norwood Park estate. It was still in cultivation by the family in 2017.[4]
Starkey was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1906,[5] and was made a baronet in July 1935, of Norwood Park in the parish of Southwell and County of Nottingham.[6]
He died in 1940.
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