Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster , younger son. PC Adopted by Rt Hon W.R. Forster, MP. Secretary of State for War, 1903–1906. Source: Who Was Who Publisher: A&C Black Category: Biography Date of publication: January 2006 ARNOLD-FORSTER, Rt Hon. Hugh Oakeley (1855-1909) Details: ARNOLD-FORSTER, Rt Hon. Hugh Oakeley; MP (U) Croydon from 1906; born 1855; son of William Delafield Arnold, Director of Public Instruction in Punjab, adopted son of late Rt Hon. W. E. Forster, MP; married Mary, daughter of Professor Story-Maskelyne. Education: Rugby; University Coll. Oxford. First Class, Oxford. Work: Parliamentary Secretary to Admiralty, 1900-1903; Secretary of State for War, 1903-1906; MP (LU) West Belfast, 1892-1906. Publications: How to Solve the Irish Land Question; The Citizen Reader; The Laws of Everyday Life; This World of Ours; In a Conning Tower; Things New and Old (7 vols); Our Home Army; A History of England, 1897; Army Letters, 1898; The Coming of the Kilogram, 1899; Our Great City, 1900; The Army in 1906: a Policy and a Vindication, 1906; English Socialism of To-Day, 1908. Recreations: bicycling, sailing. Address: 2 The Abbey Garden, Westminster, London SW. Clubs: Athenµum, Savile; Ulster Reform. Died: 12 March 1909
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