Edward Wickham
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham (4 May 1890 – 25 August 1957) was a Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton from 1935 until 1945. He had previously served in India from 1910 until 1935, first as an officer in the British Indian Army, and later a member of the Indian Political Department. From 1919 to 1921, he acted as officer in attendance for the European tour of the Shah of Persia, who awarded him the Order of the Lion and the Sun, 3rd Class. He fulfilled the same duties in 1928 for the King of Afghanistan. During his time as an MP, he served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to two Secretaries of State for War, led a delegation to Australia and New Zealand in 1944, and visited a concentration camp soon after the Second World War.
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