just beginning to practise as an artist, and the youngest is a naval cadet." They were: William Edward Arnold-Forster (8 May 1886 – 1951) artist, author and Labour politician, married Katherine "Ka" Laird Cox in 1918. She was the former lover of Rupert Brooke. Their son was Mark Arnold-Forster. After Cox's death, he married Ruth Mallory, widow of George Mallory, the mountaineer. Mervyn Nevill Arnold-Forster (21 March 1888 – 6 May 1927) John Anthony Arnold-Forster (20 September 1889 – 1958), married Daphne Mansel-Pleydell in 1919. Vanda Morton, biographer of Nevil Story Maskelyne, is their daughter. Hugh Christopher Arnold-Forster (9 December 1890 – 21 July 1965), who rose to become a Commander in the Royal Navy and served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence during the Second World War; married Marcia Buddicom in 1922 and Frances Brown in 1948. Arnold-Forster died in March 1909, aged fifty-three. Publications Arnold-Forster's publications include: 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 Our Home Army A History of England Army Letters The Coming of the Kilogram Our Great City The Army in 1906: a Policy and a Vindication English Socialism of To-Day An English View of Irish Secession in Political Science Quarterly (Mar. 1889) The Queen's Empire: A Pictorial and Descriptive Record, 2 Volumes, 1899 Military needs and military policy References Bibliography External links 1855 births 1909 deaths Alumni of University College, Oxford Secretaries of State for War (UK) Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politics of the London Borough of Croydon UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (1801–1922) British people of Cornish descent Liberal Unionist Party MPs for Irish constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom