Commander Carlyon Bellairs MP

Bellairs was born in Gibraltar, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir William Bellairs, KCMG. He served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant, and was placed on the Retired List in 1902. In the 1906 General Election he was elected for Kings Lynn as a Liberal, but later that year crossed the floor of the House to sit as a Liberal Unionist. He left Parliament in 1910. In 1911 he married Charlotte, daughter of Colonel H.L.Pierson of Long Island. He returned to Parliament in 1915 as Conservative Member for Maidstone. He eventually retired from Parliament in 1931. He died in Barbados in 1955 aged 84.