Martin Archer-Shee Martin Archer-Shee Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Martin Archer-Shee, DSO (5 May 1873 – 6 January 1935) was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Martin Archer-Shee and his wife Elizabeth Edith Dennistoun "née" Pell of New York who married in 1872 at Piccadilly. His father was a bank manager. He was the great grandson of the painter Martin Archer Shee. His half-brother was George Archer-Shee, whose notable acquittal of the accusation of theft became the basis of the play "The Winslow Boy" by Terrence Rattigan. Archer-Shee was educated at The Oratory School before entering the Royal
Martin Archer-Shee on 15 August 1902, and received the rank of brevet major a week later. He resigned from the army in 1905. In the same year he married Frances Pell, and the couple had seven children. At the January 1910 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Finsbury Central, winning the seat for the Conservatives and unseating the Liberal-Labour MP, W C Steadman. In parliament he was an advocate of Tariff Reform and argued for the case for an enlargement of the navy. His half-brother was George Archer-Shee, whose expulsion from