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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

BIZARRE: Mp whose murder sparked irish civil war to get commons plaque - What They Never Told You

Sir Henry Wilson
Sir Henry Wilson’s murder shook Britain and he received a state funeral. Photograph: Classic Image/Alamy

On 22 June 1922 Sir Henry Wilson, an army field marshal turned MP, unveiled a plaque to railway employees who had died in the first world war before returning to his stately home in Belgravia, central London.

He was a distinctive figure – tall, in uniform, with a facial scar that had earned him a nickname as the “ugliest man in the British army”.

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