Major Michael Christopher MCCREAGH-THORNHILL
1/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry

Date of birth: 30th December 1877
Date of death: 13th August 1951

Survived aged 73
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Michael Christopher McCreagh-Thornhill was born at 127 Lansdowne Place, Hove on the 30th of December 1877 the only son of Major Michael McCreagh-Thornhill JP, 4th Dragoon Guards, High Sheriff of Derby, and Eva Helen Emma (nee Hurlock) McCreagh-Thornhill of Stanton Hall, Stanton-in-the-Peak near Bakewell in Derbyshire.

He was educated Hazelwood School until July 1891 and at Eton College where he was in Mr. A.C. Benson’s House from September 1891 to July 1896. He matriculated for Magdalen College Oxford in 1897 where he achieved a MA. He passed the examinations for the bar on the 12th of April 1904 and he became a member of the Inner Temple.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Derbyshire Yeomanry on the 12th of December 1900 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 13th of May 1903. He was promoted to Captain on the 5th of April 1911, to Temporary Major on the 17th of September 1914 and to Major on the 11th of August 1916. He resigned his commission due to ill health on the 24th of March 1917 and retired with the rank of Major. There is no record of him serving overseas.

He later became a Justice of the Peace and lived at his family home of Stanton Hall. At the time of his death he was living at 56 St George's Way London SW1.
Went on to Eton College

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